Linux & open source
Siemens Deleted a Popular Open Source Project on Its Way Out the Door, and the AGPL Made Sure That…
In October 2026, months after buying Altair for $10.6 billion, Siemens retired the OpenRadioss website and deleted its GitHub repository, pointing users to a paid product. The code was under the AGPL, so within days a Rocky Linux founder had forked it into a new project called OpenCourant. I went through what happened, why deleting the repo was the self defeating part, and what the license actually guaranteed.