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Re: Resignation



Hugo Wau wrote:

> Am Mit, 2004-05-05 um 11.37 schrieb Josip Rodin:
>> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:07:55AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> > Free software extremists I can live with.  But this is too much.
>> > I will resign from this project in two weeks time.
>> [earlier quote:]
>> > If this is your attitude, then I shall resign this project.  I do not
>> > wish to be associated with people who're actively working towards the
>> > independence of Taiwan.
>> 
>> After everything, Xu quits Debian because of *nationalism*!
> 
> Is it necessary at all, to use names of political systems like names of
> states? Would it not be better, to use unpolitical names of geological
> formations eg. "Island Taiwan"?
Or would that be "Island of Formosa"? ;-)

> People keep migrating and political systems come and go. Names of states
> and citys are changing throughout the world. Names of islands, mountains
> and rivers will stay for much longer time periods.
Not necessarily.  :-(  Is that the Congo river or the Zaire river?

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