what's your want?<font color="#00681c">provocation? </font><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zenon Panoussis</b> <<a href="mailto:centos@provocation.net">centos@provocation.net
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>The mirror monitor at <a href="http://mirror-status.centos.org/">http://mirror-status.centos.org/
</a> says<br>"taiwan, province of china". For those in politics, this might<br>be correct or wrong, depending on which side they stand on.<br>The common name of the island however, used universally except<br>perhaps in ROC, is plainly "Taiwan". Saying "Taiwan" does not
<br>imply any siding with either political stance, while adding<br>"province of china" certainly does.<br><br>So I wonder, what's the background to this odd naming? Did CentOS<br>receive a nastigram from the Chinese ambassador? Did the ROC mirrors
<br>impose conditions for mirroring? Was it just an accident at work?<br>Or did CentOS make a conscious decision to solve a 60-year old<br>problem over the heads of those affected by it?<br><br>Z<br><br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michael Liang<br>liangbin[AT]fudan.edu.cn