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In Russia anyone rich enough is either part of FSB or gets an offer one can't refuse (for example, see Sysoev/NGINX).

Owners of the company are not dead.




Please excuse me lack of knowledge, but I thought the founders are from the Czech Republic?


No, they are Russians.


What happened with the nginx owner?


Igor Sysoev (not owner, that would be F5 Networks, but CTO of NGINX, Inc.) was detained, accepted the deal and was released.


What was the deal about? Where can I read about it?




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