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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by helge9210 on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:28AM (#25467385)
>The Prague-based startup

This is Czech company as much as Luxsoft is Swiss or Telegram is from UAE.

Using JetBrains tools you potentially give Russia/FSB access to your source code and open yourself to a possibility of getting backdoor inserted into binaries during compilation.

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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by maverwa on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:35AM (#25467455)
That’s the first time I am reading these allegations. Do you have sources backing up your claim or is it just expected to be “common knowledge”?
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by helge9210 on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:06AM (#25468380)
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.

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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by maverwa on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:52PM (#25474546)
Please excuse me lack of knowledge, but I thought the founders are from the Czech Republic?
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by helge9210 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:20AM (#25475289)
No, they are Russians.
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by mekster on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:18PM (#25472177)
What happened with the nginx owner?
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by helge9210 on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:42PM (#25472418)
Igor Sysoev (not owner, that would be F5 Networks, but CTO of NGINX, Inc.) was detained, accepted the deal and was released.
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by mekster on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:57PM (#25474873)
What was the deal about? Where can I read about it?
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by EGreg on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:29AM (#25467396)
This is even more doubtful than with Kaspersky. But then again, Russia has the same concerns about Microsoft software, and so on down the line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux

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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by jcfrei on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:49AM (#25467584)
Do you have any evidence to back these allegations?
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by MildestMind on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:04AM (#25467742)
Right and that's reason why all these companies not based in Russia.
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by helge9210 on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:57AM (#25468295)
The sanctions for (Crimea, MH17, chemical weapons attack in Britain ans so on) are the reason these companies are not based in Russia.
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Re:Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help by ayush--s on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:45AM (#25475857)
but what if I generate my binaries on a CI-CD server?
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