OP, any reason why you post slashdot instead of right to the source?
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html
There’s been a lot of slashdot posts on /c/linux recently
Yeah, I don’t understand why someone would submit a link aggregator to a link aggregator. Makes me wonder if the blogspam discussion applies: https://lemmy.ml/post/60793
That said, linking to other discussions is welcome as a comment imo.
No statement is still a Statement… They just say that they don’t care enough, which is quite sad regarding the topic
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
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.
Romeo Juliet law discussion is not pedophilia apologia. Hard conversations need to be done by someone, so they become easy for the ordinary people.
No statement can also mean they have nuanced and/or mixed feelings.
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.
To me that’s the perfect description of mixed feelings.
Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
Debian got scared of RMS support.
I think they just dom’t want to be a part of the drama.
Yes it is indeed drama, and the RMS supporters are becoming vocal and making more sense than the cancel mob with baseless semantic reductio ad absurdum stuff.