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Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)Posted Apr 28, 2008 23:07 UTC (Mon) by deucalion (guest, #12904)Parent article: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)
Some people might beg to differ, but IMHO this neither belongs to Wired nor to LWN. Even if it is the case, it is both distasteful and it might harm the ReiserFS project and all its participants in a way that can hardly be justified. .. my ,02 EUR
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Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted Apr 28, 2008 23:17 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Of course it belongs here. The news would also belong here if it were Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman. He's a significant figure in the Linux community.
Posting it on LWN Posted Apr 28, 2008 23:34 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Distasteful it certainly is. You'll notice that LWN has done its best to minimize the coverage of this whole episode. But this is a conviction of a developer known to many LWN readers; I do believe that I was right in posting it.
Posting it on LWN Posted Apr 28, 2008 23:44 UTC (Mon) by deucalion (guest, #12904) [Link] Yes, I only noticed your obvious lack of coverage when I glanced over the numerous articles posted on Wired. Considering how LWN compared to Wired dealt with this I'm convinced this headline and news posting is just fine the way it is. So... concluding my first outcry - actually thanks for the article. And all the quality content on LWN. :)
Under covered, in my opinion Posted Apr 29, 2008 1:48 UTC (Tue) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link] We didn't need lots of coverage. That said, given the significance, it was literally buried at the end of the October 12, 2006 weekly edition: http://lwn.net/Articles/203084/ http://lwn.net/Articles/203091/ That seemed very odd to me. More odd, was that it was filed under "Announcements" rather than the earlier section "Linux in the News" or perhaps more appropriately, the front page. This arrest was significant to the development of ReiserFS.
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted Apr 29, 2008 0:07 UTC (Tue) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link] Hans Reiser was the founder of the ReiserFS project. IMO it's highly relevant to the Linux community as he was a developer of a major file system that bears his name, not only that but he was a highly contentious person on the mailing lists IIRC. Anyone with common sense knows it is nothing more than a curious footnote in the history of the ReiserFS project. It doesn't disparage the project or the use of the system because he's a convicted murderer. He not the first smart person with major skills to do something heinous to someone he supposedly loves, and he certainly won't be the last. (How many people stopped using Heinz ketchup?) Murder happens, and it's not something that is relegated to a single class or type of people. And above all the fact that an OSS developer did something like this is important to the community for no other reason than to point out that just because someone is a good developer doesn't mean they aren't capable of murder. From what I know of the case he was a very very different man at home than he was as a developer and manager and it's a classic case of covering up a murder but getting caught by forensic evidence, fact it might end up as a "Forensic Files" episode on truTV.
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