--- title: This Is What Happens When Corporations Own Open Source description: An open source project just got bought out and shut down. Siemens decided to shut down a github repo and didn't even bother archiving it. This is what happens... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-is-what-happens-when-corporations-own-open-source-laeoxjyb8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This Is What Happens When Corporations Own Open Source | daily.dev og:description: An open source project just got bought out and shut down. Siemens decided to shut down a github repo and didn't even bother archiving it. This is what happens... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-is-what-happens-when-corporations-own-open-source-laeoxjyb8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lAEOXJYb8.png og:image:alt: This Is What Happens When Corporations Own Open Source og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This Is What Happens When Corporations Own Open Source **[SavvyNik](https://daily.dev/sources/savvynik)** · 8 min read · 5 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary An open source project just got bought out and shut down. Siemens decided to shut down a github repo and didn't even bother archiving it. This is what happens when Corps own Open Source project. Will this keep happening and what do we do? My Linux Bundle is here: 📚 https://savvynik.com Think your Ready for Linux? 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But the video explains forks have the open source license and might put a repo up again. --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/this-is-what-happens-when-corporations-own-open-source-laeoxjyb8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"This Is What Happens When Corporations Own Open Source","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-is-what-happens-when-corporations-own-open-source-laeoxjyb8","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-is-what-happens-when-corporations-own-open-source-laeoxjyb8"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T12:46:17.971Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T14:33:27.195Z","description":"An open source project just got bought out and shut down. 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