PanArab comments on Huawei says its new smartphone chip is entirely free of any US-made components

It is like Android, mixed source. Android is based on the open source AOSP project. HarmonyOS is based on the open source OpenHarmony project. Kaihong has released laptops that uses its own OpenHarmony distribution.

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 17 hours ago

Oh i see, that's nice then

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[–] gualudengren@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

to a worse one

This seems to be quite the leap. Elaborate?

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Closed = very bad

Android is open source, so you can at least make your fork and find a way to load it on phones that support bootloader unlocking, while harmony is closed so you cannot do that which is objectively worse

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[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

As others have said harmony is setup exactly the same as android, open source OS on which a closed source customized flavor is built. It's exactly as bad or not bad as android is in this regard. The flavor being in control of a Chinese corporation instead of an American one is another issue.

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[–] gualudengren@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That's reasonable thank you. I suppose I always took androids open source nature to be largely "theoretical"(?) given googles controlling stake and simply the nature of the mobile market where effectively every android device is running googles proprietary version. HarmonyOS is in reality in the same boat given it has OpenHarmony in parallel to HarmonyOS in the same way AOSP is parallel to Android.

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