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Re: Resignation



Around 08 o'clock on 05 May, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:57:21PM +0200, Hugo Wau wrote:
> The name people are asking to have listed in the Debian installer is
Just *some* people do. Some of these people started a large thread in
debian-devel, debian-boot and debian-users here several weeks ago, IIRC.
> "Taiwan".  Please explain how this is a politically-charged name.
The 2nd screen of d-i:

	/---------------------[Choose *country*]-----------------\
	| Choose your country:                                   |
	|                                                        |
	|  China                                                 |
	|  Hong Kong                                             |
	|  Taiwan                                                |
	|                                                        |
	|                                                        |
	\_______________________________________________________/

This is ridiculous. Nobody calls Hong Kong a country. When it comes to
Taiwan: Taiwan is a province of Republic of China and The People's
Republic of China considers Taiwan part of its sovereign territory[1].
Now something about the independence movement[2]:

It is a political movement whose goal is to create a sovereign, independent
Republic of Taiwan out of the lands currently administered by the
Republic of China. It is supported by the pan-green coalition on Taiwan
and opposed by the pan-blue coalition and the People's Republic of
China, which favor Chinese reunification.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence

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