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
    92·
    4 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
      142·
      4 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
        27·
        4 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.

    • BlackLotus
      6·
      4 years ago

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

    • federico3
      5·
      4 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·
        4 years ago

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