On 2003-06-12(Thu) 00:39:54 -0400, Gary L. Greene wrote: > > 2003-12-06 06:22 ------- Everything simply depends on whether > > Mandrake will enter Chinese market in the future. If they > > won't (which seems to be the case), then this issue can be > > ignored completely. Otherwise, flags gotta be removed > > completely to avoid future trouble. Political issues are NOT > > FUNNY. > > before I begin, I've CC'd this message to deaddog, since I don't > know if he's on the Cooker ML. I apologize if you are and for > this action to the list.
No need to Cc, I'm on cooker list. > I'm bringing this conversation to the main mailing list to > better get the opinion of the Mandrake people and the community > at large. This "bug" is about the removal of a (albet not > recognized officiailly) democratic nation's flag from the > distribution. While this is an issue to the communist Chinese > government, I loath the idea of not supporting a nation's > people that have chosen free choice over another form of > government. What is the position of the MDK employeees on this > one? Will it be left in, or shall it be removed, as RH did a > several months previously, which got them blasted for it by a > section of the free software community? This problem isn't even remotely related to free software. Any reasoning about "free software" means nothing here. In those days, RH wants to actively enter both Chinese markets (mainland and Taiwan). Of course, the mainland side complains that Taiwan flag is seen in RH product, and they want it removed. And RH do it. Otherwise, they obviously won't be able to sell it officially at all in mainland China. But after Taiwan flag removal, RH becomes the target of Taiwan people, which you knew already (the complaint bombardment). In order to please both sides, RH choose to remove ALL flags altogether, to show it's fairness. Yet, all these things happen because RH want to enter Chinese market. If Mandrake doesn't, then why care about it? Abel > I will not continue this conversation any further, if it's > wished. However, I want the input of the cooker community about > this. > > - -- > Gary L. Greene, Jr. > Sent from 12:26am up 5 days 22:39, 4 users, load average: > 0.30, 0.37, 0.16 > ============================================================ > Founder and president of the Grand Valley Linux Users Group. > -=<http://www.gvlug.org>=- > Chief Systems Architect, SSC Limited, Inc. - OS Department. > PHONE : 331-0562 > EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ============================================================ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+6AQdyPw381UL7WcRAvDsAJ9KCX7XpFwNvaL9yrbE+lCln0Bz0gCbB46w > /mSVd+RxpgqzJS4TyJywgKw= > =q8rR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Abel Cheung Linux counter #256983 | http://counter.li.org GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) | http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF
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