Geopolitical issues with software have been around for a long time: In 1995, Microsoft had to remove timezone markings from the world map shown in the time settings in Windows because India said it was inaccurate -- making it much less useful for everyone.
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679.aspx The time zone map met a similar fate. The Indian government threatened to > ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed > region to Pakistan in the time zone map. (Any map that depicts an > unfavorable border must bear a government stamp warning the end-user that > the borders are incorrect. You can't stamp software.) We had to make a > special version of Windows 95 for them.
