On Tuesday 03 February 2009 08:14:20 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > Absolutely agree. There is no legal liability issue in every country > > other than in China. Which means that if you include the flags people > > living in the Peoples Republic of China will not be able to legally use > > Fedora. Which means that any maverick out there could potentially face > > prosecution depending on the mood of the authorities over there or, > > potentially have every download site with a Fedora distro blocked by The > > Great Firewall of China. Meaning the people over there won't be able to > > get Fedora at all. Putting the flags in a third party repository allows > > us users to install the flags if we want them (we do want them don't we). > > If a maverick chooses to install them, then they can do so with eyes wide > > open if, of course, The Great Firewall of China will allow them access to > > the repositories. > > > > I realize for most of us it's a freedom of speech issue. I agree it sucks > > big time. But, we don't live in China. And with 3rd party repos we can be > > "polite" while having our cake and eating it too. The Chinese can get > > Fedora without us picking a fight we can't win. > > But a lot of countries ban things, for example some countries ban games or > at least certain kinds of games, others ban cryptography or some kinds of > cryptography etc. If we remove everything banned in some country, what do > we have left to ship? > The flags are not a vital component. I agree with the 3rd-party option, but only if it is an obvious option. It just helps in a first-glance awareness. It's what told me why my keyboard was not working correctly in F9. It doesn't look as though there is any such indicator in F10 - is that correct? I suppose that the country code, EN, DE or whatever, on an icon would do the same thing. Since I don't use language switching I don't see how F10 actually does it. The 'Add a language' has been said to have a problem, so I didn't do it as I don't need it. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090203/7458054b/attachment.bin
