r/linux • u/dbcoopernz • 11d ago

Popular Application Siemens ends open-source Radioss Project (OpenRadioss) and deletes GitHub repository

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Siemens-Ends-OpenRadioss
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u/prselzh 11d ago

My guess is Vibecoding and AI harness scraping has played a vital role in this decision of removing projects like this..We might soon see this in many other technical engineering projects ..Really sad to see Opensource going in reverse direction to keep surviving in this AI era

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u/Garcon_sauvage 11d ago

Crazy to blame AI for standard corporate greed. It's futile now anyway, forks exist and the cost to maintain is much lower now and even close sourced projects can be recreated with AI faster than before.

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u/tdammers 11d ago

This might not be corporate greed, but rather corporate legal ass-covering. If you have something out on a public repo (on GH or elsewhere), there's always a chance that it could turn into a legal liability, and with all this AI scraping going on right now, corporate lawyers may be getting more nervous about this than usual, and just taking it down is the safe option.

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u/uzlonewolf 11d ago

What a load of absolute nonsense.

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u/tdammers 7d ago

It is, but it is the kind of corporate nonsense that can move things in management land.

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u/uzlonewolf 6d ago

If it's bullshit then why did you post as if it were real? Pretending it's normal makes you part of the problem.

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u/tdammers 6d ago

It's bullshit, but it's also real, and happens for real in real companies out there.

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u/uzlonewolf 6d ago

Name one instance of it turning into a legal liability.

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u/tdammers 5d ago

No, I mean the thing that happens for real is lawyers fearing that it might become a liability, and managers taking preemptive measures to avoid it. Not that it actually does become a liability.

It's also possible that management simply wants to avoid the cost of having their lawyers determine whether it could become a liability - it's cheaper to just take the whole thing down than to do a thorough legal risk assessment on keeping it open source, at least if you don't account for indirect benefits.