The guy who was in front of the tank lives outside of china now and is widely seen as a symbolic hero in his country. The big difference between this and and the gas chamber, electric chair or whatever babaric way americans get rid of their murderers is that the chinese government is a dictatorship and people that are opposed to the regime often get executed. In the US, the murders are democratically sanctionned. I don't think anyone should put their moral judgement aside just because they want their favorite OS to gain market share. Now, I know no one is being killed because they don't use Linux but that doesn't mean that we should turn a blind eye to the atrocities that are being perpetuated by the chinese government.
Murder is murder.
We all have to accept morally indefensible actions in foreign countries whether they are democracies or not. This was a tasteless joke. I for one, wish them the best of luck and welcome them. We've done all the hardwork getting CJK going via Chinese but we need local experts to for Japanese and Korean. I have already seen a very well done Japanese version of Abiword running on RH 7.0.