The mirror monitor at http://mirror-status.centos.org/ says "taiwan, province of china". For those in politics, this might be correct or wrong, depending on which side they stand on. The common name of the island however, used universally except perhaps in ROC, is plainly "Taiwan". Saying "Taiwan" does not imply any siding with either political stance, while adding "province of china" certainly does.
So I wonder, what's the background to this odd naming? Did CentOS receive a nastigram from the Chinese ambassador? Did the ROC mirrors impose conditions for mirroring? Was it just an accident at work? Or did CentOS make a conscious decision to solve a 60-year old problem over the heads of those affected by it?
Z
what's your want?provocation?
On 8/28/06, Zenon Panoussis centos@provocation.net wrote:
The mirror monitor at http://mirror-status.centos.org/ says "taiwan, province of china". For those in politics, this might be correct or wrong, depending on which side they stand on. The common name of the island however, used universally except perhaps in ROC, is plainly "Taiwan". Saying "Taiwan" does not imply any siding with either political stance, while adding "province of china" certainly does.
So I wonder, what's the background to this odd naming? Did CentOS receive a nastigram from the Chinese ambassador? Did the ROC mirrors impose conditions for mirroring? Was it just an accident at work? Or did CentOS make a conscious decision to solve a 60-year old problem over the heads of those affected by it?
Z
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Wow! What a way to dissolve a political "issue", just rename something, just grep and replace!!! (please forgive, this is obviously now off-topic)
~Katz
Michael Liang wrote:
what's your want?provocation?
On 8/28/06, *Zenon Panoussis* <centos@provocation.net mailto:centos@provocation.net> wrote:
The mirror monitor at http://mirror-status.centos.org/ <http://mirror-status.centos.org/> says "taiwan, province of china". For those in politics, this might be correct or wrong, depending on which side they stand on. The common name of the island however, used universally except perhaps in ROC, is plainly "Taiwan". Saying "Taiwan" does not imply any siding with either political stance, while adding "province of china" certainly does. So I wonder, what's the background to this odd naming? Did CentOS receive a nastigram from the Chinese ambassador? Did the ROC mirrors impose conditions for mirroring? Was it just an accident at work? Or did CentOS make a conscious decision to solve a 60-year old problem over the heads of those affected by it? Z _______________________________________________ CentOS-mirror mailing list CentOS-mirror@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-mirror@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror>-- Michael Liang liangbin[AT]fudan.edu.cn
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