Two-week vote dismissed options to back or sack controversial FOSS figure Share Copy The Debian developer community has decided to say nothing about the new controversy surrounding Richard Stallman relection to the board at the Free Software Foundation. The decision to say nothing came after a call for the project to support an open letter that called for Stallman’s removal from all leadership positions in the free software community and the removal of the entire Free Software Foundation for enabling Stallman. Stallman resigned from the Foundation in 2019 after making incredibly insensitive remarks, in which he questioned whether the term “sexual assault” was applicable in the case of a woman who, aged 17, was coerced to have sex with MIT professor Marvin Minksy.