On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:59 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009, alcapcom wrote:
> 2009/5/18 Björn Persson <bjorn(a)xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>:
>> To me it would seem more reasonable to install the flags by default. Then the
>> anti-whatever extremists could just remove them, and the more relaxed among
>> us would see the user interface the way the authors intended without jumping
>> through additional hoops.
>
> +1
>
> But I will try to say it in another way.
>
> Unfortunate peoples that live in countries where a _simple_ flag can
> give troubles for whatever cause/reason, can remove them all to be
> able to use Fedora. But please, don't cut our freedom just to be more
> friendly with authoritarian regimes.
What if a non-authoritarian regime didn't want us to distribute a flag
that was offensive to their democratically-empowered populace? Would that
be okay then?
Say, using pretzels and sausages on flags instead of Swastikas...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,617987,00.html
the whole reason for nuking the set of flags entirely is so we are
NOT
choosing sides.
Which was my early answer to Kevin on the subject, and comforts me in my
thinking :)