Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by techinsidr » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 1:38 PM UTC

Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code
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Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by jivatmanx » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

Let's not forget: Aliyun OS is an admitted illegal closed-source Linux fork (And likely an Android ripoff).

Perhaps China should comply with basic U.S. law if they want to sell things here.

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by pfortuny » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:21 PM UTC

Yes, and get all the bugs they want to fix fixed for free, is it not? And leave open those they deem worth leaving.

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by ari_elle » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:25 PM UTC

jivatmanx wrote: post #2

Let's not forget: Aliyun OS is an admitted illegal closed-source Linux fork (And likely an Android ripoff). Perhaps China should comply with basic U.S. law if they want to sell things here.

The point is that you can't judge a company solely on where they are from and that simply because of the company's origin to not only state concern, but to actually completely ruin their reputation by issuing serious concerns about possible spying activities, before having analyzed the products in suspicion, is just wrong.

That is btw exactly what you are doing.

Aliyun OS is illegal, so Huawei has to suffer?

This is at least what is the logic i draw from your statement in connection with the article

Note: And after having destroyed part of their reputation in the US and having analyzed their products, the official conclusion was that there were security risks found, but no possible spying or anything.

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by ari_elle » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:28 PM UTC

pfortuny wrote: post #3

Yes, and get all the bugs they want to fix fixed for free, is it not? And leave open those they deem worth leaving.

Huawei wants to enter US market

-> spying suspicions

Huawei makes source code open

-> all they want is free bug fixing

Is that really fair?

Note: Have you even read the article? They say they would make the source code available for official governmental institutions to analyze it if they wanted, they don't say anything about making it completely open-source!

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by EwanToo » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:29 PM UTC

jivatmanx wrote: post #2

Let's not forget: Aliyun OS is an admitted illegal closed-source Linux fork (And likely an Android ripoff). Perhaps China should comply with basic U.S. law if they want to sell things here.

Has that got anything to do with Huawei? As far as I know, that was developed by Alibaba?

Or are you just complaining about Chinese companies in general?

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by ari_elle » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

In my opinion it's the right way to address this.

They enter the US market to have their reputation instantly destroyed by official US institutions, that are filing concern about possible spying through their products at a moment where they haven't even looked at it, to later conclude that there were security risks found but none of the allegations were true.

I don't know how big the final damage for Huawei is, but that in order to avoid this just to let them look at their source code seems like a good way of addressing this.

And that is actually one of the big pro free software arguments in general:

By having the source code openly* available you know when you are screwed over.

Congrats Huawei for an in my opinion right way to address this issue!

* in the scenario of Huawei they only want to make source code available for analyzing purposes by governmental institutions. That does not change the statement issued above though

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by seivan » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:24 PM UTC

Has anyone compared Ericssons tech with Huawei? Honest question. I feel like if you're setting up infrastructure, take it from the countries that does it the best. Ericsson is Swedish and _THE_ first country to roll out with 4G (around my parents place, even).

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by edoloughlin » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:26 PM UTC

jivatmanx wrote: post #2

Let's not forget: Aliyun OS is an admitted illegal closed-source Linux fork (And likely an Android ripoff). Perhaps China should comply with basic U.S. law if they want to sell things here.

> Perhaps China should comply with basic U.S. law if they want to sell things here.

You'd better hope they don't start with labour law or you might not be able to afford to buy any of their stuff.

Re: Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code

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Post by binarymax » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:58 PM UTC

ari_elle wrote: post #7

In my opinion it's the right way to address this. They enter the US market to have their reputation instantly destroyed by official US institutions, that are filing concern about possible spying through their products at a moment where they haven't even looked at it, to later conclude that there were security risks found but none of the allegations were true. I don't know how big the final damage for Huawei is, but t…

I see a flaw here. How would we know that the source code made available to US officials is the actual code built and shipped on their devices? They could be showing officials 'cleaned' code, and then ship different code with spyware/malware baked in. The only way to really trust the code is if an end user can download the source, review it, build it, and install it on their device.