Red Hat: Bugging out on the Taiwanese Flag
Here is a very good article from two years ago about how the relations between the People's Republic of China "pressured" or "inspired" the writers of Red Hat Linux 8.0 to write the Taiwanese flag out of the program as a "bug"! Flag of inconvenience
The strange thing about the Mainland's hostility toward Taiwan and Red Hat's capitulation toward the Mainland market is that at present, there is a technology transfer taking place across the straits that will transform suburbs of Shanghai into the silicon goldmine that was this island's major engine of economic growth.
Taiwanese geeks are taking their expertise across the straits even as the Mainland/PRC insists upon erasing Taiwanese identity from the face of the earth.
Is Taiwan a country? Is it a rogue province? Depends on your point of view, but as Andrew Leonard at Salon showed two years ago, the formidable and growing power of the PRC is leading even the most idealistic of people -- the Red Hatters to kneel and say uncle to the Communists.
The strange thing about the Mainland's hostility toward Taiwan and Red Hat's capitulation toward the Mainland market is that at present, there is a technology transfer taking place across the straits that will transform suburbs of Shanghai into the silicon goldmine that was this island's major engine of economic growth.
Taiwanese geeks are taking their expertise across the straits even as the Mainland/PRC insists upon erasing Taiwanese identity from the face of the earth.
Is Taiwan a country? Is it a rogue province? Depends on your point of view, but as Andrew Leonard at Salon showed two years ago, the formidable and growing power of the PRC is leading even the most idealistic of people -- the Red Hatters to kneel and say uncle to the Communists.
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