Herbert’s resignation demonstrates why GNOME doesn’t ship flags at all. Herbert is a reasonable guy, who lives only a few kilometres away from me in Sydney, and happens to have a more personal, deeply-held perspective on the China/Taiwan issue than many of us. I guess I don’t share his belief, but it should not affect our shared vision here — the progress of Free Software.
If your Free Software project only has a single, global release — and that’s pretty much all of us — you should strongly advocate the removal of flags and other national symbols. These are not logical right-and-wrong debates. They’re personally and nationally held beliefs that we simply can’t solve as Free Software contributors.
Live on, fight the battles you can win.
