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Re:Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s loo... by gioele on Saturday February 15, 2020 @05:55PM (#22338609)
Once we are done talking about country borders, let's talk about flags.

Red Hat/Fedora "no flags" policy: https://lwn.net/Articles/333623/

Resignation of an important Debian kernel maintainer because a flag of Taiwan is included in a Debian package: https://lwn.net/Articles/86925/ https://lwn.net/Articles/86923/

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Re:Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s loo... by Lammy on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:24PM (#22345096)
That resignation is hilarious. GPL extremism is tolerable but a Taiwanese flag was "too much". Good riddance.
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Re:Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s loo... by draw_down on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:02PM (#22338908)
Jesus. People falling all over themselves to miss the point and claim that no one should care about these things. Well, people do care, and there are no easy solutions here. Because people are more complicated than computers.
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