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1. Uniqueness defines the brand
2. Creates explosive models and shapes the brand
3. Builds an ecosystem to spread the brand
On July 28, 2022, the Open Atom Open Source Summit of the Global Digital Economy Conference with the theme of "software defines the world and open source builds the future" opened in Beijing. into the public eye. Sun Wenlong, secretary-general of the foundation, evaluated this international open source feast from the four highlights of bringing together the open source power of the global industrial chain, core link capabilities, developer sharing, and domestic and foreign exchanges and cooperation.
It is understood that as the first open source foundation in China - Open Atom Open Source Foundation, 10 projects including Huawei OpenHarmony, Tencent Tiny OS, Alibaba Ali OS have been donated to the foundation for incubation, changing "one-owned" to "open-source shared" , Attract the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to jointly build an ecology. It aims to promote open source, open and collaborative innovation, open up resources in all links of the industrial chain such as technology chain, innovation chain, and ecological chain, promote its wide application in various fields of social economy, and accelerate the construction of industrial ecology.
Uniqueness defines the brand.
The Foundation was established on June 15, 2020. It is a non-profit independent legal entity under the supervision of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. As the first and only open-source-themed foundation in China, its establishment is considered to be a precedent and milestone for domestic open source from individual combat to organized, large-scale, and branded operations. Development, open source standards, open source concepts and other open source industries have entered a new stage of comprehensive practice.
It is no exaggeration to call a history of IT technology development half a history of open source. From the analysis of the core (chip) and soul (operating system) of IT's underlying infrastructure, the entire chip is divided into two architectures, the complex instruction set CISC (abbreviation for Complex Instruction Set Computing) architecture and the reduced instruction set architecture RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer, RISC for short) . The former is represented by the X86 architecture of Intel and AMD, and on the basis of RISK, it has successively derived the MIPS architecture that is proud of the world in the field of consumer electronics, the ARM architecture that is the best in the mobile Internet era, Apple, IBM, Motorola, Intel, etc. The PowerPC architecture in which Western semiconductor giants are divided and fall in love with each other. The technical route of the operating system is divided into two factions. Microsoft's self-developed and self-produced Windows is a unique family; the other faction derives Linux, FreeBSD, and various Unix application versions from the Unix version. Android, Hongmeng, etc. are open sourced from Linux, Apple's iOS and macOS are derived from FreeBSD, and SunOS, IBM AIX HP-UX, etc. are Unix application versions. The title of the originator of the Unix global operating system is well-deserved. After open-source iteration, it has taken root and blossomed worldwide. It is evenly divided with Microsoft Windows and has monopolized the global mobile Internet market for a long time. The open-source core products have wide compatibility and openness, which can not only satisfy the application directly through the release version, but also carry out secondary development and application through the open-source version. Because it saves the R&D cycle and R&D cost investment for the development and use of individuals or small and medium-sized enterprises, it is called the technical operation method of standing on the shoulders of giants and teaching people how to fish. At the same time, development and application developers, scientists, scientific research institutes, etc. converge and integrate, and feed back donation codes in the development and application, forming an open source ecological operation system.
According to the data released by Apple at WWDC in 2022, the number of iOS developers in the world has exceeded 20 million, covering 77 countries, and more than 5 million APPs have been developed. There are 4.4 million developers in China, and more than 1 million APPs have been developed. Although Google has not released the relevant figures, some organizations have analyzed that the number of Android developers and the number of APPs has surpassed that of Apple. With its closed nature, iOS has built its own independent ecological kingdom. With its openness, Android has built an open ecology that integrates software and hardware, and development and application integration, creating a loose and free ecological environment, providing manufacturers with a free arena to play, and providing consumers with a better experience.
From the analysis of the ecological barriers established by foreign technology giants such as Apple and Android, ecological competition is a very important part of the overall pattern of global technology and brand competition. It is not only a favorable weapon for breakthroughs in technological innovation, landing of scene applications, expansion of market scale, and construction of competition barriers, but also the only way to overtake on corners and occupy a leading position in global technology. Ecological construction provides a common infrastructure for win-win cooperation at all levels and links of the industry, and it fundamentally changes the bottleneck and is controlled by others. From the root technology and the entire system base, it grasps the dominance of traffic, entrance, discourse power, and standards. Therefore, it has become An urgent issue of the times.
On the other hand, in China, the history of open source in China for more than 20 years is full of sadness. In 1999, Red and Blue Linux became the starting point of open source software in China. When the idea of sharing code technology in exchange for the market that was conceived earlier did not work, it forced domestic companies to start the long march of self-development and open source. Alibaba Cloud officially open-sourced the first line of code in 2010, becoming the starting point for domestic software to be open-sourced.
At present, among the international open source foundations, the number of domestic members will increase by 26% in the same period in 2021, reaching 125. More than 20% of CNCF projects come from China, Apache has 24 domestic projects, 14 of which have become top projects, and the Linux Foundation has 139 domestic members. From following, participating to in-depth contribution, China has now become an important force in global open source. The number of open source contributors is rapidly expanding, and the number of open source contributors is growing rapidly, accounting for an increasing proportion of global contributors. The GitHub 2021 research report shows that the number of Chinese contributors to GitHub has grown rapidly, with the number of contributors reaching 7.55 million, second only to the United States. In the past year, the number of contributors in China has grown by 16%, the fastest growth rate in the world. In 2020, the number of contributors participating in open source on the Gitee platform increased by 50% to 6 million, a growth rate of 157%, of which 38% are participating in open source for the first time. In 2020, the open source code base of the Gitee platform will reach 15 million, which is the sum of the open source projects on the Gitee platform from 2013 to 2018. The top three are program development accounting for 24.29%, web application development accounting for 17.75%, and mobile development accounting for 24.29%. 10.15%.
Domestic leading technology brands have become the main force of open source. According to the Open Source Contributor Index’s November 2021 ranking of global open source manufacturers’ GitHub open source contributions, Huawei, Tencent, and Ali ranked 11th, 14th, and 16th respectively. Huawei is an active developer. The number of people is 1059, and the number of participating communities is 2703. According to Gitee’s 2020 annual report, Gitee’s corporate users will reach 180,000 in 2020, a growth rate of 80% compared to 100,000 companies in 2019. Although many companies have reached a consensus on the commercial value of technology and open source ecology, many small and medium-sized enterprises are facing the real dilemma of insufficient talent reserves and insufficient R&D investment. From "digital economy" to "economic digitalization" transformation, there are still vast and empty unknown areas and risks in the middle. The top brands in the technology industry have both strong R&D and commercialization capabilities, and have the potential for a two-way in-depth layout. The technology industry will use its own brand appeal and radiation to build and develop a win-win, open and prosperous ecology, change the situation of going it alone, integrate the forces of all parties, release their core resources, and learn from each other. Not only can it provide the necessary support for the technology to be implemented, but also continuously verify each other to achieve a breakthrough in the optimization of the business model. In addition, in the face of some special digital transformation needs, it can also communicate and interact within the ecosystem, and integrate the technical advantages of ecological partners to solve them. Therefore, ecological construction must give full play to the leading and exemplary role of leading brands and research institutions in the industry, effectively integrate technical resources, industrial chain resources and financial resources, and become an important innovation carrier for continuous output of core R&D capabilities and service capabilities. Through the ecological construction of full-stack capabilities that extend to the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and then drive the common development of small and medium-sized related enterprises and technical teams, it can effectively strengthen the comprehensive support of ecology for technology, economy, social development and national security.
According to incomplete statistics, there are currently more than 40 open source and open platforms dominated by leading domestic technology brands, and the service capabilities to accelerate industrial innovation and development have been further enhanced. In terms of AI open source platforms, Ali, Didi, Tencent, NetEase, JD.com, etc. have established and operated comprehensive AI basic service capability open platforms, and Yuncong, Megvii, Meitu, EZVIZ, ArcSoft, etc. have visual image recognition AI capabilities Open platform, iFlytek, Yitu, Xiaomi Xiaoai, Sogou, Xueersi, Youdao and other speech recognition AI capability open platforms. In terms of open computing service platforms, such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Baidu Cloud, JD Cloud, Kingsoft Cloud, and Tencent Cloud have established and operated AI cloud computing service open capability platforms. In terms of open source and open platforms in the vertical field, there are Baidu Apollo automatic driving open platform, Ali city brain open platform, Tencent smart medical open platform, etc. Among them, the Baidu Apollo platform has brought together 210 ecological partners around the world. More than 80,000 developers in 135 countries around the world use Apollo open source code, and the number of open source code exceeds 700,000. The Apollo autonomous driving platform has become the most powerful and open in the world. , the most active autonomous driving platform. The number one open source brand in China, Alibaba Cloud has more than 1,700 open source projects, covering big data, cloud native, AI, database, middleware, hardware and other fields. It has not only become the technical base of countless companies, but also formed an industry standard. Currently, Alibaba Cloud is working with 11,000 ecological partners to serve more than 4 million commercial customers and 1.2 billion users in 28 regions around the world. In terms of community ecology, my country has become the country with the fastest development of the global development framework ecology. The "China Team" represented by Baidu Paddle has 535 global developers and more than 15,000 open source contributors. And a set of dazzling data was handed over in GitHub. The growth rate of project contributors (Contributors) is 5.2 times that of TensorFlow and 1.6 times that of PyTorch; the growth rate of attention (Stars) is 3.8 times that of TensorFlow and 1.5 times that of PyTorch. 3 times. Cumulative commits have exceeded 500,000 times, and more than 15,000 open source contributors have submitted in the form of PR or ISSUE. There are also a large number of contributors participating in other forms, among which 97 outstanding developers have passed through layers of screening to become Paddle Developer Technical Experts (PPDE). Flying Paddle ranks first in terms of activity (Fork), attention (Star), and contributors (Contributors), surpassing the sum of other domestic frameworks, showing relatively high activity and attention. On the whole, the current Paddle community ecology is second only to PyTorch, ranking second in the global market. The number of Hongmeng developers has increased from 560,000 in 2018 to 1.3 million in 2019, 2.3 million in 2020, and more than 5 million in 2021. The new generation of artificial intelligence industry technology innovation strategic alliance organizes all parties in the industry, academia and research to cooperate to build the "Openl Qizhi Open Platform", which brings together open source software, open source hardware and open data, aiming to promote open source, open and collaborative innovation in the field of AI, and open up the AI technology chain , innovation chain, ecological chain and other links in the industrial chain resources, promote the wide application of AI in various fields of social economy, and accelerate the construction of industrial ecology.
Accompanying the rapid development of the open source ecosystem and the explosive growth of the number of open source projects is the encouragement and promotion of open source at the national level. 2020 is called the year of open source explosion by the industry. This year's "Mulan Agreement" officially became an international open source license. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has joined hands with the world-renowned open source platform Gitee to build an independent open source hosting platform in China. In March 2021, open source was included in the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the first time, "supporting the development of innovative consortiums such as digital technology open source communities, improving open source intellectual property rights and legal systems, and encouraging enterprises to open software source code, hardware design and application services" . Open source has risen to the level of national strategy and is the focus of the government's future work. In November 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "14th Five-Year" Software and Information Technology Service Industry Development Plan, proposing to build 2-3 open source communities with international influence by 2025. The document highlights the important role of open source in driving the innovation and development of the software industry and empowering the construction of a digital China, puts forward the key task of "prospering the domestic open source ecology", sets up a special action of "cultivating the open source ecology", and coordinates the promotion of the construction of a high-level foundation. Create excellent open source projects for key areas, deepen the application of open source technologies, consolidate open source infrastructure, popularize open source culture, improve open source governance mechanisms and governance rules, strengthen international cooperation in open source, and promote the formation of an open source software ecology in which everyone researches, uses, and creates. Open source guidance documents and supporting policies are gradually implemented, encouraging the industry to increase investment in open source at the national level, and escorting the development of the open source ecosystem from the dimensions of top-level design, technical foundation, industry standards, digital security, and international exchanges.
In recent years, the proportion of open source software applications in domestic enterprises has increased year by year, and the acceptance of open source technology has become higher and higher, and the use of open source technology has become the mainstream. According to a survey by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, 88.2% of enterprises have already used open source technology in 2021, and only 2.1% of enterprises have no plans to use open source technology. From a global perspective, 97% of developers and 99% of enterprises are using open source software. From the perspective of the software supply chain, open source has become a new battlefield for future information technology and industrial competition. Open source has become a standard business practice in the current global information industry. Advanced technology companies around the world regard open source as a key strategic means for long-term business success. The mutual promotion of open source and business is obvious.
Brand secondary levers such as production, learning, research, application, government, and media have paved the way for shaping China's open source brand from the aspects of technology, policy, ecology, and industry. Production, academia, research, application, government, and media are not only the support and carrier for the construction of brand ecology, but also the support and carrier for the expansion of technology brand marketing communication channels. Adhering to the spirit of co-creation and co-construction, building an open source ecology, and creating a shared platform are the only ways for its development. Facing the rapid iteration of technology and the ever-changing demands, the urgency of working together and sharing information is obvious. Building and using an open source ecosystem is an efficient way to accelerate the value creation of professional knowledge and avoid basic mistakes. The open source ecological platform brings together industry experts, professionals, developers and scientists with unlimited power and potential. Through the sharing and optimization of the capabilities and resources of all parties, an ecological community of shared future is formed under the guarantee of the mechanism. Organically and efficiently collaborate and give full play to advantages to realize the value creation of new products, new services and new business models, realize the improvement of the overall value of the ecosystem, and effectively prevent risks to achieve mutual prosperity and win-win results.
With the rapid development of the global open source ecosystem, there are open source risks that cannot be ignored. While enjoying the convenience of cost reduction and faster technology iteration brought about by the introduction of open source, enterprises also face risks of security breaches, data leakage, intellectual property rights, and management. Vulnerabilities and defects of open source software threaten the safe operation of the system, according to the "2021 The Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report shows that 84% of open source code bases contain at least one vulnerability, and the proportion of vulnerabilities has increased year by year in the past three years, and 60% of audited code bases contain high-risk vulnerabilities. All audited martech companies' code bases contain open source, with 95% of martech code bases having open source vulnerabilities. 97% of financial services, fintech industry code bases contain open source code, and more than 60% of these code bases contain vulnerabilities. Open source software may lead to the risk of data leakage due to its sharing characteristics. While open source code is interoperable, non-discriminatory, and transparent, it also has potential data security risks. A lot of configuration information in open source software involves account passwords. If the information carried by the code is not checked, evaluated, and encrypted, once the developer fails to process these sensitive data in time due to negligence, a large amount of user information may be lost along with the code. shared and leaked. Intellectual property risk issues of open source software are relatively professional and complex. Due to the professionalism and complexity brought about by the competition and cooperation of certain rights in the software itself when it is protected by intellectual property rights, the software source code may have multiple types of rights at the same time, and the source code can be used as Computer software works are protected by copyright, and the functions realized by the source code form new technical solutions that can apply for patents and be protected by patent rights. Multi-dimensional comprehensive analysis of intellectual property issues. According to Synopsys' 2021 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report, more than 90% of audited code bases contain open source components with license conflicts, custom licenses, or no licenses at all. Of the code bases audited in 2020, 65% contained open source components with license conflicts, usually involving the "GNU General Public License"; 26% of the code bases adopted open source code without a license or a custom license. These three issues can lead to infringement and other legal risks and usually require careful assessment. Moreover, the enterprise's ability to manage open source software needs to be strengthened. If an enterprise wants to use open source software more efficiently, it must be equipped with a professional software management and operation and maintenance team for demand response and daily maintenance and management of open source software. Due to the rapid iteration frequency of most open source software and the lack of professional third-party technical support, the internal staff of the enterprise need to constantly track the version iteration of the software to avoid potential risks, thereby greatly increasing the workload of open source software operation and maintenance. Therefore, before introducing open source software, it is necessary to carry out the introduction evaluation work, and select open source software with strong community support capabilities, third-party commercial support, or internal operation and maintenance capabilities within the enterprise. Fast, and often there is no professional third-party technical support, resulting in the internal staff of the enterprise needing to constantly track software version iterations to avoid potential risks, which in turn greatly increases the workload of open source software operation and maintenance. Therefore, before introducing open source software, it is necessary to carry out the introduction evaluation work, and select open source software with strong community support capabilities, third-party commercial support, or internal operation and maintenance capabilities within the enterprise. Fast, and often there is no professional third-party technical support, resulting in the internal staff of the enterprise needing to constantly track software version iterations to avoid potential risks, which in turn greatly increases the workload of open source software operation and maintenance. Therefore, before the introduction of open source software, it is necessary to carry out the introduction evaluation work, and select open source software with strong community support capabilities, third-party commercial support, or internal operation and maintenance capabilities within the enterprise.
How to better avoid risks calls for innovation in open source management models. Because it involves overseas business and has high requirements for open source compliance, leading technology brands are the first to pay attention to open source risk governance. OpenChain ISO and IEC 5230 are international standards for open source license compliance. As a project under the Linux Foundation, its member units include ARM, Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm and other giants in various fields. In 2020, OPPO announced to join OpenChain as a platinum member, and it is also the first platinum member in China to join the project. In 2021, Huawei will join the OpenChain project as a platinum member, and will work with more than 20 global companies including Qualcomm, Google, Siemens, and Toyota to build a secure open source software supply chain. Explore the open source model to attract extensive participation from the industry, expand the scale of software applications, create de facto standards, and use the open source model to solve problems such as high operation and maintenance costs and easy outdated technology under a closed architecture. In order to try to achieve the purpose of reducing the cost of enterprise operation and maintenance, prolonging the life of technology, and leading the technical route.
To shoulder the above-mentioned responsibilities and missions, the Open Atom Open Source Foundation came into being. Compared with the Apache, CNCF, Eclipse, Linux, and FSF foundations that rank among the top five in the world, the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, which is only 2 years old, aims to enhance my country's brand mission of contributing to global open source, prosper the open source cause, and share the value of open source. High expectations are placed on the brand vision. In keeping with the theme of open source, adhering to an international perspective, highlighting the characteristics of science and technology, promoting the prosperity of business formats, and comprehensively assisting open source to empower the high-quality development of the digital economy and other dimensions, we will outline a newer and more beautiful open source brand from 0 to 1 to N. Send out the strongest voice of China's open source brand, and shape the brand image of the country's most important equipment.