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Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election

Posted by samzenpus on from the rock-the-vote dept.

daria42 writes "A record low voter turnout - highlighted by the fact that two-thirds of the candidates have not yet cast their ballot - is marring the Debian Project's ongoing elections for the Debian Project Leader position. Project secretary Manoj Srivastava said yesterday: "At the time of writing, half an hour into the second week of the vote, we have the lowest participation ever in a Debian project leader election seen so far"."

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  1. Don't blame me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I voted for Kodos.

  2. Late returns are finally counted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And GORE wins florida!!!

    Oops, wrong election...

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  3. only in fantasy land by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    When the Florida ballots were counted thoroughly, Bush got more votes than Gore. Gore only wins if you neglect to count only real votes and add to the totals stray marks and bumps which are not votes (but some can imagine them to be Gore votes).

    If Bush cheated, it was through kicking Democrats off the voter rolls.

  4. Re:If they want high voter turnout... by gstoddart · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If they want high voter turnout, they need to put an ammendment on the ballot to ban gay packages.

    And, what would those be? Open-Snap Queen v0.34? gnu-Sweaty Men v 1.0?
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  5. They are too busy enjoying their new Mac minis by Johnny+Mozzarella · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously though what I have seen is an exodus away from Linux on the Desktop and to Mac OS X. Instead of spending time developing Linux, developers are spending more time on developing FOSS on their Macs and deploying on Linux servers.

    When it comes down to being productive, Mac OS X just makes sense for a lot of folks.

    What does this mean and how should the Linux community respond? The reality of the situation for Linux is there are too many competing distributions and not enough focus(56 flavors and they all taste like chicken). Perhaps we will see some consolidation? Who knows?

  6. Re:Debian is dying. by Nimrangul · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Uh, last I checked they weren't a company, so there is no red ink to flow anywhere.

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  7. DEBIAN IS DEAD! by csoto · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh wait, that's FreeBSD. Never mind!

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  8. Re:If they want high voter turnout... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Enemy Territory. Ever seen a female in that game? I think not.