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Why Human Rights Requires Free Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the necessary-but-not-sufficient dept.

andyo writes "Why Human Rights Requires Free Software: Report on a practitioner's view of the critical role free software plays in the work of human rights activists around the globe."

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  1. If you care about human rights.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    DONT USE REDHAT!

    Don't support companies that is willing to sell out freedom and democracy for dollars like Redhat.

    Redhat removed Taiwans flag and status as independant in latest Redhat 8.0 to please the totalitarian dictatorship in China against the democracy of Taiwan.

    Even microsoft lists Taiwan in their Country-list despite objections from the Chinese government.

    Even Microsoft is defending freedom, Redhat is not.

    Please, chose another distributions, there is a lots of good distributions. You don't have to use Redhat and shouldn't if you care about freedom and democracy.

    Even if the UN officially don't regognise Taiwan as a independant country because of the risk of war, most democratic nations clearly view Taiwan as a independant democratic nation. They have their own Flag and elected government.

    ->RPM spec file "kdebase.spec".
    Line 558:
    # remove taiwanese flag
    %if %{redhatify}
    rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/locale/l10n/tw/flag.png
    %endif

    Line 735:
    Mon Aug 5 2002 Than Ngo than@redhat.com 3.0.2-7.2
    - add patch file to fix kicker segfault (bug #69688)
    - get rid of Taiwanese Flag in KDE (bug #70235)

    Line 830:
    * Mon Apr 4 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer bero@redhat.com 3.0.0-5
    - Add fixes from KDE_3_0_BRANCH, except for the "F1 in konsole" change
    (that one breaks things)
    - Don't show Taiwanese flag for zh_CN (#61946)
    - Move in Red Hat splash screen

    Red Hat customer support has this to say:

    "As a global company Red Hat must be sensitive to political differences that impact the markets it serves. One of those markets is Mainland China, where the inclusion of the Taiwanese flag would have prevented the introduction of Red Hat Linux 8.0."