Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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). > > 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.
1) I am not a mandrake employee. I think that a ludicrous action like removing the Chinese flag and only leaving the Taiwanese flag and a smart way of bringing this to the media will give exactly the kind of publicity that mandrake can use to live without the support of China. As a second effect it will give a nice signal to China that their `...' policy works counterproductive. Of course this should get to the chinese media in non-chinese countries. # Han -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
