On 5.V.2004 at 11:37 (+0200) Josip Rodin wrote: > > After everything, Xu quits Debian because of *nationalism*! > Excuse me now as I go away and laugh my ass off.
Probably things are more complicated than they seam to be. AFAIK there are many people (a majority?) in Taiwan that do not want independence from China (of course they want independence from Peoples Republic of China). Both in P.R.of China and Taiwan R.O.C there are many people that do not want se see the breakage irreversible. On the other hand after so many years, naturaly in Taiwan there are people that want their own independent country forever. I am not sure whether people that belong to "stable" nations and states from ages can understand how sore can be the present processes in Taiwan for the people in the both parts of China. So it is probably not just a nationalism (in the way I understand this word) but a matter of the real life. I am not sure if Debian is able to find a compromise but it seams to me that the following statement is acceptable for the people in Taiwan and less unacceptable for the people in P.R. of China: "Taiwan is part of China, but it is not part of P.R. of China." Not sure if it is possible to find a short teritory name with this semantics. By the way the name of Hong Kong in debian-installer is "Hong Kong" and nobody objected that this means that Hong Kong is independent from China. Why it should be different with Taiwan? Anton Zinoviev
