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TheGrandNagus ,

Break with the Linux ecosystem? No it doesn’t lol

HarmonyOS is a multi-kernel system. It uses the Linux kernel and a modified LiteOS kernel. Unless they mean to eventually move past that, but idk, this article is trash and doesn’t say much, it just sucks Huawei’s dick.

Nobody should care about some dodgy proprietary OS with CCP backing.

GigglyBobble ,

Oh man. By that headline I got my hopes up that Logitech came to their senses and renewed the Harmony Hub or even the glorious Harmony One.

XTL ,

Well, if it creams Linux… And I’d really like to see a Chinese giant break.

silencioso ,

At least now you can choose if you prefer to be spied by the US government or the Chinese government :D

smileyhead ,

th

King OP ,
@King@lemy.lol avatar

They release their code the same way that android do.

SomethingBurger ,

So they release the bare minimum and shove every feature in proprietary Play Service blobs?

TheGrandNagus ,

They don’t even do that.

Android is fundamentally FOSS, but in reality Google has an additional proprietary layer over the top (that unfortunately is growing)

HarmonyOS is fundamentally proprietary, but a few components are GPL licence so they’ve done the bare minimum in making that open to satisfy the law. And even those parts are being stripped out over time.

smileyhead ,

There is some open core, but system you recieve in the end device is going to be totally locked and without source code to see. The only component with available source will be Linux kernel, because of it’s user-friendly copyleft licence, but it is so much modified even on Android it’s basically useless.

King OP ,
@King@lemy.lol avatar

The os is not based on linux.

TheGrandNagus ,

No. HarmonyOS is closed source.

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social avatar

Super fast Chinese spyware

knobbysideup ,
@knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yes, yes you are.

rikudou ,

Why…? It’s obviously a tool to spy on their citizens even more effectively and very possibly to spy on western citizens as well.

I’m all for alternatives to Android and iOS, but I’d rather be spied on by private companies than a country that pretty much plans to take over Asia and then the rest of the world in the coming decades (well, in my wet dreams SailfishOS matures as a real alternative and I don’t have to choose Android at all).

King OP ,
@King@lemy.lol avatar

Because it’s the first consumer ready microkernel, that I can run on my device.

FrostyCaveman ,

No thanks. I prefer my government mass surveillance and backdoors in the binary blob firmware layer. Separation of concerns and all that.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

yes on lemmy.

AlmightySnoo ,
@AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world avatar

There’s also Red Fash Star OS if that’s your thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

wikibot Bot ,

Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Red Star OS (Korean: 붉은별; MR: Pulgŭnbyŏl) is a North Korean Linux distribution, with development first starting in 1998 at the Korea Computer Center (KCC). Prior to its release, computers in North Korea typically used Red Hat Linux, and later switched to modified versions of Microsoft Windows with North Korean language packs installed. Version 3. 0 was released in the summer of 2013, but as of 2014, version 1. 0 continues to be more widely used.

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Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

that's linux

plague_sapiens ,
@plague_sapiens@lemmy.world avatar

Not it’s Red Star OS!!! Looks like you don’t like communist leadership! To the gulag with him!

NotMelon ,

No, take him to naked island

Asudox ,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

blasphemy!

desmosthenes ,
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

…why…?

ichbinjasokreativ ,

Yes.

computergeek125 ,

No I can’t say I’m excited for an OS that will undoubtedly contain first-party spyware

laurelraven ,

This, exactly this

I want a third option but this ain’t it

Fake4000 ,

Wouldn’t never touch a Huawei phone.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

So… you would always touch it?

bratosch ,

I wouldn’t never not touch it

b000urns ,
@b000urns@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t disagree

rikudou ,

I don’t not disagree with your not disagreement.

johsny ,
@johsny@lemmy.world avatar

I agree.

rob_t_firefly ,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll take Whoopi Goldberg to block.

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