Last year, seven Chinese firms, which include PATEO, Huawei, JD.com, Runhe, Yikatong, Software Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Chinasoft International founded the OpneHarmony project under the guidance of OpenAtom Foundation in December last year.
While on the 2nd of June 2021, Huawei launched the HarmonyOS for various smart devices including smartphones as the third-largest software ecosystem after android and iOS.
Now as per the latest info, Huawei has donated the HarmonyOS core structure package and all the basic capabilities related to code to the OpenAtom Foundation.
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Also, OpenAtom Foundation named this project the OpenAtom OpenHarmony project according to the Chinese naming habits.
Why Huawei donated the HarmonyOS core structure package to OpenAtom Foundation?
This step from Huawei is taken for increasing the reachability of the latest software system while at the same time it will help the foundation to use this software as per their requirements. Furthermore, Huawei will continue to participate in this project and make sure it progresses.
However, the main motto of this project team to build open-source community governance, in which many other organizations have been invested and helped to build this project.
Besides, the OpenHarmony project adopts the marketing-friendly open-source approach like Apache 2.0. The other fellow companies, enterprise, and private firms can utilize the OpenHarmony open source code and modify it according to their will. The company believes that the OpenHarmony project is for everyone.
In this context, the spokesperson of the various firms commands this project works on the voting system. Each firm has one vote with a fair voting process and supervision procedures.
As per the data concluded by 31st May 2021, the participation number of the various firms in this project has been cross 240. And on the 1st of June, the OpenHarmony 2.0 Canary version has been debuted on Gitee, a code hosting platform.
Apart from this, many famous names such as Alibaba, Baidu, Inspur, 360, Tencent, and China Merchants Bank is the member of this project which was founded back in the June of 2006.
