On 2003-06-12(Thu) 13:15:11 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:39, Gary L. Greene wrote: > > 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.
1) I am not a mdk employee. 2) IANAL. 3) I don't live in mainland China, so what I say can possibly be wrong. > Dunno about Mandrake's official position, but I bet it's been installed > in both places already. I'd be tempted to leave it in unless/until > China asks us to remove it (even via a distributor). While it won't, unless Mandrake wants to _actively_ enter mainland Chinese market. But the GB18030 encoding compliance can be a big obstacle. > Given that China already have Red Flag Linux apparently run by the > Chairman's son, I don't know that China will be offically happy about > other Linuces anyway. Probably Red Flag is still being announced as a semi-official distro in China, but it doesn't receive much official support from PRC now. The favorite distro among mainland China people is RH. Abel > Cheers; Leon > > -- 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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