I don't get the hate against Huawei. Not that I've seen much of it. Google are not the good guys overall, neither is Huawei. The two companies do good things and bad.
I've recently watched a talk by Jonathan Corbet on Linux Kernel Report [0]. At one point he asked the audience "Who's running Linux on their phone?". Lots of people raised their hand. He then said "Well, are you? Because a lot of companies have as much as 2+ millions of lines of custom kernel code on their devices. Huawei in particular has 2.7+ millions. If the kernel currently is at about 24 million lines of code, and you only need a small subset of that for a phone, then what you end up with is something different than Linux." It happens at approximately 30:40 in the video. I have a suspicion that HarmonyOS is just what they have now plus another 200k+ lines of code or so to change the look.
One key differentiator in my opinion between Google and Huawei is how they treat their own employees and partners.
I've worked closely with Huawei on a number of projects and they really work their employees to the bone, with terrible code, non-existent procedures, and a stressfull existence for everyone involved as a result.
I don't think "hate" is the best word, but I would say the concern is that Huawei can be wielded as a weapon by the Chinese Communist Party in any way they see fit. Even if you look at it from a country-neutral perspective, it's more threatening than Google because everything ultimately serves The Party in the Chinese system in a way that is unknown to liberal democracies.
Lol they want contribution from open source community developers? Well their own crap Android phones are coming with locked bootloaders. They try to become American style community based company keeping their shit closed source and want contribution on other side. Huawei should be doomed. Crap Chinese companies!
[+] [-] paulriddle|6 years ago|reply
I've recently watched a talk by Jonathan Corbet on Linux Kernel Report [0]. At one point he asked the audience "Who's running Linux on their phone?". Lots of people raised their hand. He then said "Well, are you? Because a lot of companies have as much as 2+ millions of lines of custom kernel code on their devices. Huawei in particular has 2.7+ millions. If the kernel currently is at about 24 million lines of code, and you only need a small subset of that for a phone, then what you end up with is something different than Linux." It happens at approximately 30:40 in the video. I have a suspicion that HarmonyOS is just what they have now plus another 200k+ lines of code or so to change the look.
[0]: https://youtu.be/yt29BKVfI0I
[+] [-] sjogress|6 years ago|reply
I've worked closely with Huawei on a number of projects and they really work their employees to the bone, with terrible code, non-existent procedures, and a stressfull existence for everyone involved as a result.
[+] [-] dchest|6 years ago|reply
I have a suspicion that HarmonyOS is just what they have now plus another 200k+ lines of code or so to change the look.
It's microkernel based, so it's not just a look change.
[+] [-] nabla9|6 years ago|reply
Huawei must obey all orders of their government.
Google must obey only legal orders. Legality can be challenged in the courts.
[+] [-] 07d046|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Synaesthesia|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] methuselah|6 years ago|reply