Re: We would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China

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3 Dec 2021, 23:31 by luzar722@gmail.com:

> kaik haven wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>> We call ourselves the "FreeBSD Chinese Community", a team from China, and
>> we have been working to get more people to use FreeBSD in China. Of course,
>> we have encountered a lot of problems, such as: Chinese users always have
>> trouble installing FreeBSD on their computers, because there is no official
>> mirror site, and the closest one to mainland China is in Taiwan, and we
>> have no way to connect to an official mirror site for policy reasons; there
>> is no official documentation in Chinese for users to review, and the
>> website for the official Chinese documentation translation project is There
>> is no official Chinese documentation available to users, and the official
>> Chinese documentation translation project website is inaccessible and
>> unmanaged; there is no unified mainland China user group or foundation to
>> help mainland FreeBSD users. We have contacted you and the University of
>> Science and Technology of China LUG has offered to mirror FreeBSD and be
>> one of the official mirror sites, but in the end, no one cared and it went
>> away.
>> Also, we would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China and contribute to
>> the FreeBSD open source community by providing mirror sites, Chinese
>> documentation translations, etc. for Chinese FreeBSD users in China.
>>
>
> All your problems are caused by the china government not allowing internet contact to the world internet. Remove that censorship and your welcome to the FreeBSD community.
>
Classic ignorance!
The `Great Firewall' is not there to lock the Chinese in, it's to lock the rest of us out.
You really think the west has that much to offer?
Think again.
Go there to inform yourself.
I have felt much more in the way of personal freedom, in both China and Russia, than I ever did on a dozen trips to the U.S.
The last time was a total horror show, to the point I would never go there again.
Cheers!

Harry