On 18.01.2012 20:06, Jim Henderson wrote:
Do we have a large number of contributors from China currently participating in the project? Do we have a large installed userbase in China?
afaik no. But I'd like to be convinced otherwise.
Certainly the "Great Firewall of China" needs to be dealt with, but there is a significant difference between the US and China.
The US is supposedly a "free" country. But due process and other core principles of US freedoms are under attack by laws like SOPA, DMCA, PIPA, etc. And those changes in US law have implications outside the US.
Well, it's not just the them, it's also almost everything released by the Bush government that decline US citizen's freedom and rights. SOPA is just the next step towards total censorship.
It's curious that you would equate the two situations - because they're very,*very* different. They're only similar in that they're about censorship by the government. But the historical backgrounds of the two countries are very, very different.
That doesn't mean what happens in China is right. It isn't.
Totally agree. I'd like to protest against China's government too, but if we would do so, we would need to protest against everything, so no work wouldn't be done anymore. Btw, we're not the only ones who are protesting against it, right? Is there a list of protesters anywhere? -- Kim Leyendecker, openSUSE Wiki Team GPG Key: 664265369547B825 | leyendecker@opensuse.org http://www.opensuse.org - Linux for open minds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org