As soon as this news came out, there were many misunderstandings and so on. And this "Open Atomic Open Source Foundation" is also completely on fire.
So what exactly is the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation? Others are described in detail in official website. It is a neutral and non-profit organization registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The services of the Open Source Foundation include open source software, open source hardware, open source chips and open source content.
Because its business unit is the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, many people think that it belongs to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which is a big mistake. For example, domestic software manufacturers and mobile phone manufacturers are all managed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Can you say that they belong to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology?
In fact, there are many open source communities abroad, such as Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation and OpenStack Foundation. With reference to this, the Open Atomic Open Source Fund was established in June 2020. Sponsored by Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Inspur, Tencent, 360 and China Merchants Bank, it is the only open source foundation in China.
From official website of the Open Atomic Foundation, we can see that eight open source projects have been publicly accepted, three of which are operating systems, and all of them are open sources earlier than OpenHarmony.
As shown above, the first one is Ali's alios Things, which is Ali's embedded operating system for the Internet of Things. Tencent also has an operating system called TencentOS tiny, and Huawei's full scene OpenHarmony.
In addition, there are Inspur's Yunxi database ZNbase and low-code development language UBML, Tencent's enterprise-level container service platform TKEStack, Redis storage system project Pika similar to 360, and Baidu's underlying blockchain project XuperChain.
It can be seen that OpenHarmony is not the first open source project of the Foundation. Before it, many vendors have donated code to open source, and it won't be the last one. I believe that more and more open source projects will join in the future.