The initial smartphone version of HarmonyOS 2 from a few years ago was just an Android reskin,[1] despite claims to the contrary from Huwaei, and unlike HarmonyOS 1 for IoT devices. It remains to be seen if HarmonyOS for PC really is an independent OS, a fork or a reskin/distro of an existing OS.
No version of HarmonyOS has ever been an Android reskin. HarmonyOS has always had an Android compatibility layer. HarmonyOS "NEXT" removes that compatibility layer.
You said correctly, the US is locking itself out of this market. Huawei would have no incentive to create a new OS if it wasn't for crazy laws shutting them off the market. Now, Chinese business that live in the Huawei ecosystem have a great incentive to at least give a try to this new OS.
I think it is good that there is development that goes beyond tired Windows and Unix-like operating systems. We need more serious operating system architectures not less.
The OpenBSD project at least believes that the US restrictions on the export of cryptography would have impacted them. Its why they banned US developers working on cryptography long ago.
> Of course, our project needs people to work on these systems. If any non-American cryptographer who meets the constraints listed earlier is interested in helping out with embedded cryptography in OpenBSD, please contact us.
> It does, the Linux kernel maintainers eventually said that's the reason for banning Russian maintainers.
As craftkiller interline in a sibling post (https://hackertimes.com/item?id=43927430): would this not rather imply that you should ban US-American maintainers (at least on some subsystems)?
If Russian maintainers write some Linux kernel code, this will cause no problem for a US export ban. On the other hand, if US-American maintainer does, it might.
Given that US big tech funds a lot of orgs they will always have a big stake.
One could for example filibuster certain Chinese or Russian features/proposals etc for a long time. Or at the last minute vote to do a 180% on a design proposals so US Rival have to redo an implementation. Standard office politics shit.
But it does look interesting and they probably have a huge worldwide market that the US is now locking themselves out of.