OpenAtom Foundation (), a
non-profit
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independent legal entity registered with the
Ministry of Civil Affairs
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, is the first foundation for the
open-source software
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in
China.
It was established in June 2020 and initiated jointly by
Alibaba
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Films
* ''Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'' (1902 film), a French film directed by Ferdinand Zecca
* ''Ali Baba'' (1940 film ...
,
Baidu
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,
Huawei
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,
Inspur
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,
Qihoo 360
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,
Tencent
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,
China Merchants Bank and other companies for operation and marketing services of open source projects.
Projects
As of December 2022, the foundation hosts
open source
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projects including xupercore,
OpenHarmony
OpenAtom OpenHarmony, or abbreviated as OpenHarmony (OHOS), is an open-source version of HarmonyOS donated by Huawei to the OpenAtom Foundation. Similar to HarmonyOS, the open-source operating system is designed with a layered architecture, which ...
, openEuler, TecentOS Tiny,
AliOS Things, OpenBlock, PIKA and hapjs.
Collaboration
On September 28, 2021, the OpenAtom Foundation and the
Eclipse Foundation
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announced their intention to form a partnership to collaborate on OpenHarmony.
On October 26 in the same year, both partners launched Oniro operation system, a compatible implementation of OpenHarmony based on open source and aimed to be transparent, vendor-neutral, and independent system for the global market with the founding members including
Huawei
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,
Linaro and Seco, an Italian IoT device manufacturer.
See also
OpenHarmony
OpenAtom OpenHarmony, or abbreviated as OpenHarmony (OHOS), is an open-source version of HarmonyOS donated by Huawei to the OpenAtom Foundation. Similar to HarmonyOS, the open-source operating system is designed with a layered architecture, which ...
References
External links
* {{official, https://www.openatom.org/
Foundations based in China
Organizations established in 2020