An anonymous reader writes: Debian Project Secretary Kurt Roeckx has announced the results of a closely-watched vote on what statement would be made about Richard Stallman's readmission to the Free Software Foundation's board. Seven options were considered, with the Debian project's 420 voting d...
  • @tricia@lemmy.161.social
    7•3 years ago

    No statement is still a Statement… They just say that they don’t care enough, which is quite sad regarding the topic

    • @marmulak
      12•3 years ago

      It’s not, I think it’s wise of them to reject the controversy itself. It’s a waste of time to pay attention to it or feed into it

      • @tricia@lemmy.161.social
        -5•3 years ago

        I agree that many debates which seems similar are a waist of time, but in this case the hole debate is interwoven with sex traffic and child abuse.

        • @TheAnonymouseJoker
          1•3 years ago

          Romeo Juliet law discussion is not pedophilia apologia. Hard conversations need to be done by someone, so they become easy for the ordinary people.

          All this mob culture is achieving is anti intellectualism.

    • @BlackLotus
      6•3 years ago

      No statement can also mean they have nuanced and/or mixed feelings.

    • @federico3
      5•3 years ago

      The diagram and beat matrix at the bottom of https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 tell a different story:

      • the cluster of options 1/2/3/4 are very strong and very close to winning.
      • the “support RMS” options 5/6 flat out failed
      • had the vote been between the two clusters, the first would have won.
      • Unsurprisingly, a lot of people voted “no statement” as a fall-back option, and Condorcet strongly favors options that makes most people “not completely unhappy” rather than making a relative majority with their preferred choice.
      • @lorabe
        5•3 years ago

        To me that’s the perfect description of mixed feelings.