On 8/3/05, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A friend of mine directed me to a recent blog entry of his: > http://iblog.chomped.org/index.php?p=108 > > Fedora ships with the flags removed from the KDE keyboard mapping > selector. This causes a practical issue for users that switch between > US and US/international bindings which could be resolved in some way > other than the flags. > > What I find interesting is that his bugzilla entry for the issue > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164705) was > closed as a duplicate of a bug which is not publicly available > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70235). > > It appears, from Ian's blog entry, that the flags were removed as a > result of pressure from the Chinese government because the included > flag set included a Taiwanese flag. I can't confirm this because I > can't actually see that bug. 70235 is a really really old bug... it definitely pre-dates fedora. I bet if you try hard enough and look back through the archives for redhat-list or redhat-beta-list I bet you can find a smattering of discussion around the time that change was introduced.. like 3 years ago. The decision was made in the context of rhl and rhel when fedora wasn't even a glimmer in anyone's beer yet. So how about you look at the decision to pull the flags and the decision to make the bug report private in the correct context for the timeframe when those original decisions were made...before this was a community project. Fedora isn't completely new, and has inherited decisions. Whether or not its worthy bringing this specific decision backup for discussion and review in the context of Fedora is an open question. But I will say that I find the original blog entry and this post a little bit over-the-top with reference to the impact this decision is going to have on larger issues concerning human rights and I'm not sure it's going to be productive conversation with such grandiose scope being encouraged by one of the protagonists. -jef"3 years ago....."spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
