【閒聊】自由軟體的政治味!

[bentong]

轉貼自http://www.kde.org/international/index.html[*] Note on the use of the word "Country"
The KDE webmasters recognize that Taiwan and Basque are political minefields with respect to whether or not they are countries. As in international project, KDE needs and tries to stay out of any such political battles.

Our policy on this matter is simple: If somebody goes through the trouble of creating a KDE website, then we will include it in this list. Furthermore, we will not override the site creator's preference for what to call their geographical area (e.g., calling the Taiwan site "Taiwan" instead of "China"). Doing so means taking a side and we cannot do that.

If our use of the word "country" bothers you, then feel free to substitute it with something like "geographical area" or "language" or whatever. It's just a convenient word to use that describes the vast majority of these sites.
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我在KDE官方網站,看到有關國際化的一段文字,很有意思,大意是說:
關於台灣和Basque(不知道是哪一國?)到底算不算是一個國家("country")的問題,
KDE的網路管理員了解到這是一個棘手的政治議題, 他們盡量避免牽入無謂的政爭.
KDE的政策很明白:那就是如果有人開建KDE網站發生問題的話,KDE就會把它放在這裡
,他們(KDE)不會隨便更換網站創建者索引用的稱號,也就是說KDE尊重使用Taiwan來
稱呼Taiwan Site而不會使用China來成呼
(這本來就是天經地義的事,難道China霸王硬上弓,連這個也要欺負Taiwan, 顯然KDE也
遇到某種pressure, 不然他何必大費周章額外聲明這段文字.....?)

[阿正]

悲哀...

[cheerx]

呵呵~~~自由軟體的官方網站也不太自由.