Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)

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.