[CentOS-mirror] Politics

Mon Aug 28 18:54:09 UTC 2006
Randy Katz <randyk at ccsales.com>

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 at provocation.net 
> <mailto:centos at 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
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