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by addicted
2504 days ago
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HarmonyOS, if it is a decent OS, which is a huge IF, will have the advantage of having a huge and fairly receptive Chinese market. It better be open source at least if it wants to have any chance of being used outside China though, and not just “open” source. |
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Not sure what that means, but open source is pretty much irrelevant in this market, for one because we already have Android and it doesn't help much.
If you want to fork Android, it's easy and except for Google's proprietary services, like the notifications, you get compatibility with the entire Android ecosystem out of the box.
So why is there no successful fork around, except for Amazon's, which is very niche and doesn't count?
Open source is defined by the freedom to fork. However if the market forces are such that forking isn't feasible, then the open source nature is irrelevant.
Going back to your usage of quotes in "open" source, if that's what you meant, well, unfortunately Huawei is not the FSF.