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Disclaimer first: I'm a Chinese citizen who were raised up with (lots of) exposure to the so-called Western culture/value, partly because of the Internet and "t
by rfoo 6y ago
Disclaimer first: I'm a Chinese citizen who were raised up with (lots of) exposure to the so-called Western culture/value, partly because of the Internet and "the free flow of information", so the article is really really interesting to me.
- Edit: except for the "Bloomberg big hack" part, I have to point out it died because it is extremely likely to be a fake story, by amending my comment.
> I do doubt that Huawei have created their own operating system to rival android. Unless git clone constitutes an act of creation;
As someone who had interviewed a few guys working on their so-called "Android compatible layer for HarmonyOS" and "automatic Android app to HarmonyOS migrator" (sounds like a source-to-source transpiler for mapping calls to Android APIs to mostly-same-to-Android-but-with-some-subtle-differences HarmonyOS APIs, nobody would create such a horrible thing if they really simply git clone), I believe they do. I don't know to what extent, though.
I think your comment is an interesting example of the "dismissive tone" Steve referred to.
- emptysongglass 6y agoGo read Ars Technica's take on HarmonyOS and then double take on the language Huawei has used to describe HarmonyOS as an original creation. It's absurdist lies all the way down. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-h...
- rfoo 6y agoThanks. Was a fun read. Indeed, Microsoft was lying on how they created WSL1! They must be using git clone-d Linux source code, because from a cursory look the "Bash on Windows" looks exactly same to a bash running on real Linux, I even tried grep, they are all the same! Then they finally cannot cover it up anymore so they released WSL2, publicly stating it is vanilla Linux running in Hyper-V, pretending they are not doing this from the beginning to save face, shame! /s
- emptysongglass 6y agoYou're not only being snarky, which is against this site's rules, you're also making a nonsensical comparison: Microsoft isn't beating around the bush implementing a Linux kernel inside Windows, it's right there in the name. Huawei has publicly declared HarmonyOS a wholly original creation, which as we can see from the previously linked article, is a total fabrication.