After a massive outcry over the police raid on Nginx Moscow offices, Rambler's board orders company execs to ask law enforcement to terminate the criminal case
This important NYT story on Russian govt. interference in the acquisition of widely-used Web software Nginx speaks volumes about how the RU govt is stunting innovation and resigning its smartest programmers to lesser aims https://www.nytimes.com/...
“Russia is governed by “the law of the jungle, where the only way to survive is to constantly demonstrate your strength over the weak in the hope that stronger animals will leave you alone."" https://www.nytimes.com/...
The head of an internet start-up incubator at the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute said the case “kills technological progress, kills entrepreneurship, kills the already dead venture market and closes the windows to capital for Russian start-ups” https://www.nytimes.com/..…
Probably hard to exaggerate the damage this case is doing to Russia's tech investor climate, not that anyone in Russian law enforcement gives a shit about that, these days. https://twitter.com/...