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Re:HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones... by pbhjpbhj on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:03AM (#20652852)
Your comment is not at all clear; perhaps you could try being less euphemistic and say what it is you mean.
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Re:HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones... by navigaid on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:08AM (#20652875)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiandihui

According to wikipedia, 洪門(Hongmen) is the alternative name for Tiandihui(天地會), an illegal society in Hong Kong, which sounds similar to Hongmeng.

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Re:HarmonyOS is Huawei’s Android alternative for smartphones... by pbhjpbhj on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:29AM (#20652979)
Ah, so "black societies" meant something like "criminal organisations", maybe triads? I thought to begin with the comment meant dark-skinned people.

So, if I have it right:

Originally Huawei called their OS 'Hongmeng'. But that sounds like 'Hongmen' which is an alternative name used (but not exclusively) for the outlawed Tiandihui crime syndicate.

something close to that.

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