Earlier today (9th November 2021), Huawei officially announced during the Operating System Industry Summit 2021 that it will be joining hands with all of its partners in the community to formally donate its open source operating system, openEuler.
At the conference, the Chinese tech giant announced that it will be donating its openEuler operating system to the OpenAtom Foundation. For those unaware, the openEuler program was initially announced back in 2019, with the new openEuler OS being launched back in September 25. While the company’s HarmonyOS was targeted for smart terminals, IoT terminals, and industrial terminals, openEuler was aimed for servers, edge computing, and cloud infrastructure.
According to Wang Tao, Executive Director of Huawei and Director of ICT Infrastructure Business Management, stated that the company will be donating the complete source code of its open source operating system along with the brand’s trademark, community infrastructure, and other related assets to OpenAtom Foundation. As of right now, the openEuler platform’s community has brought in around 10,000 developers across nearly a hundred special interest groups, and even bringing in 300 companies.
Despite donating its open source platform, Deng Taihua, Huawei’s vice president and president of computing product line, said that the company will continue to invest in and promote the development of openEuler in five aspects. This includes, technological innovation, ecological construction, commercial promotion, open source construction, and talent development. In other words, it still aims to grow the platform.
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