The most precious things every person has are their life and the time allotted to them. Everyone manages these resources in their own way. There is no second chance, you cannot be born again, and you cannot rewind the clock. Igor Sysoev dedicated nearly 20 years of his life day by day to painstakingly work on creating perhaps the best web server of all time for humanity. Igor was under no obligation to publish the source code. under a free license, but he did so voluntarily, as his contribution to making our world a better place.
It is unlikely that Igor thought that day when he published the source code for the first time that open source would help him become a dollar billionaire. He probably also didn't think about how one day he would find himself alongside other founding fathers of the Internet, such as , or . This has come true: as of today, according to Netcraft, the number of websites served by nginx has exceeded 447 million. And you can also use this web server for your website, this work of modern art, completely free of charge!
Therefore, in the end, the money that Igor Sysoev happily received was honestly earned by his own blood and sweat (not from the grief and suffering or slave labor of others), he deserved it! His Fields or Nobel Peace Prize, if you will...higher level of isolation, as if one controller is broken, the problem is confined to that specific context).In business, conflicts and frictions always arise; its essence lies in competition. But now
a specific circle of undefined people wants to defeat not a competitor in fair market competition, but this group seeks to trample Igor Sysoev's merits into the dirt, devalue them, portray the philanthropist as a thief, and take his award for themselves a good faith claimant — in arbitration court, but in the dirtiest way reminiscent of the '90s, involving the might of law enforcement resources. NGINX has become an iconic example for us at the ReactOS Foundation of how one can humanely earn money from open source software while also bringing people the joy of information exchange and the freedom to be themselves.
Help keep the fairy tale alive! Do not allow the demise of the free project!
Help turn the fairy tale into reality! Don't let the free project face its demise!
Source: habr.com
