What does Huawei’s official donation of the Euler operating system mean? On November 9, the Operating System Industry Summit 2021 was held in Beijing.
At this meeting, Huawei, together with all community partners ***, officially donated the Euler open source operating system (openEuler, referred to as "Euler") to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation.
According to reports, Euler is an open source operating system for digital infrastructure. It can be widely deployed on various forms of equipment such as servers, cloud computing, edge computing, and embedded. The application scenarios cover IT (Information Technology), CT (Communication Technology) and OT.
(Operational Technology), realizes a unified operating system to support multiple devices, and one-time application development covers all scenarios.
Wang Tao, Managing Director of Huawei and Director of the ICT Infrastructure Business Management Committee, said in his speech that leading the digital economy requires strong digital infrastructure, and basic software is the soul of digital infrastructure. A strong soul will make the body healthy, and a strong foundation will make the branches prosperous.
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At the meeting, Wang Tao announced that Huawei would donate the full code, brand trademarks, community infrastructure and other related assets of the Euler open source operating system to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation to bring together more industrial forces and build a stronger digital economy at a faster speed.
infrastructure.
Wang Zhijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in a video speech: "Eula, a heavyweight open source project in the field of operating systems, was donated to the foundation for incubation. It is an opportunity for our country to seize the development opportunity of the era of Internet of Everything and take open source as the starting point.
It is a useful attempt to build the next generation operating system by hand and build a "digital base" for economic and social development." Huawei Vice President and President of Computing Product Line Deng Taihua promised in the keynote speech at the conference that after Euler's donation, Huawei will continue to focus on technological innovation and ecological construction.
We continue to invest in and promote the development of Euler in five aspects: business promotion, open source construction, and talent development.
According to reports, the Euler donation includes: millions of lines of Huawei self-developed code copyright and intellectual property licenses, more than 8,000 software packages verified by Huawei and the community; Huawei's innovative iSula, A-Tune, Stratovirt, and secGear projects
; ***30 Chinese and English trademarks of openEuler and iSula, A-Tune, Stratovirt, and secGear projects; ***4 openeuler.org and its subdomain names, and openeuler.io and its subdomain names; construction services and
Community infrastructure such as testing system, code hosting, and community operation platform.
According to the official website of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, the foundation is a non-profit independent legal entity registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and dedicated to the public welfare of the open source industry.
The Open Source Foundation's service scope includes open source software, open source hardware, open source chips and open source content, etc. It provides neutral intellectual property custody for various open source projects to ensure that the sustainable development of the project is not affected by third parties and seeks richer development through open governance.
Support and help from community resources, including raising and managing funds, and providing legal, financial and other professional support.
The official website of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation shows that its incubation projects include: AliOS Things, TencentOS Tiny, OpenHarmony and openEuler, etc.