How Omega Soft lost its software rights and was blacklisted

Alexey Rybakov, CEO of Omega Soft, has detailed a legal dispute with a major client that resulted in the loss of rights to their industrial software and the company being added to the Register of Unscrupulous Suppliers (RNP). According to the author, the company developed a system for automating critical processes, but the client failed to configure their server infrastructure for seven months. Following legal proceedings (Case No. A40-311087/2025), the developer's source code was seized without compensation, payment of 24.7 million rubles was denied, and a bank guarantee was collected. Rybakov argues that this precedent poses a significant legal risk to the entire Russian IT industry, highlighting the vulnerability of independent developers to large corporations and judicial formalism. The author calls for a review of how such disputes are handled to protect the country's technological sovereignty.