On 2003-11-21(Fri) 18:14:40 +0000, Julien Olivier wrote: > > Think about the Free Software market though. If we piss off Chinese and > > Taiwanese hackers - to use the favourite example - who might be inspired to > > contribute to GNOME, that's a really bad thing. Lots of potential hackers. > > Yes, that came to my busy mind just after sending the email. It's > obvious that we don't want GNOME lovers from China/Taiwan/etc to be > forced to break their country law just to use/test/contribute freely to > the GNOME project. Or going to another extreme -- Chinese govn may simply block all netizens from accessing *.gnome.org. > So, maybe it's a better idea not to ship flags at all. But my question > is: what would we do if, for any reason, we really needed flags in a > GNOME app (for example, if an encyclopedia application - ala Encarta - , > were to be added to GNOME one day) ? Luckily GNOME hasn't come to this stage yet. It can be PITA. Abel > > -- > Julien Olivier <julo altern org> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- 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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