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Why would the mobile OS be different? If you sell hardware you don't want to make money from selling licenses and handling the support for a mobile OS. As a har
by simion314 7y ago
Why would the mobile OS be different? If you sell hardware you don't want to make money from selling licenses and handling the support for a mobile OS. As a hardware company I would prefer the OS to be open source and have the patches mainlined into the kernel if possible.
What I dislike in this topics is the fact US people will assume the worst about a thing if is somehow related to China, there is nothing suggesting that Huawei would not respect GPL.
- yorwba 7y agoHuawei had a pretty bad track record publishing their modified Linux kernel sources. They got better in recent years and created https://consumer.huawei.com/en/opensource/detail/?siteCode=worldwide&fileType=openSourceSoftware https://consumer.huawei.com/en/opensource/detail/?siteCode=w... but many older devices aren't listed. I think they'll be more careful to comply with open-source licenses in the future, but there's precedent to show that they don't care all that much if they can get away with it.