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This could cause some serious trouble. The article is light on details, but it's easy to envision a scenario where they built the initial version of nginx for their employer, and never contractually clarified the ownership before leaving the company and taking it with them. This isn't a clear-cut case of legal trolling, as much as everyone might want it to be.