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Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)Posted Apr 29, 2008 4:38 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) by proski Parent article: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired)
I think that would be highly inappropriate. Consider the impact on the public's perception of our community. Right or wrong, many people who heard that, for instance, the kernel team continued to work with him after this conviction would be left with a very bad taste in their mouths regarding Linux and free software in general. Even aside from corporate adopters, this would also spook a great many of the general public.
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Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted Apr 29, 2008 5:13 UTC (Tue) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link] Let's assume for the sake of argument that Hans is sitting in front of a network-connected laptop tomorrow. (Smuggled in in a cake, presumably.) If so, there's nothing stopping him from submitting a patch to the kernel under another name. It's not as if new kernel patches have to be gpg signed with a known-good key. If the patch is reviewed and judged to be good and signed-off-on by a lieutenant, it will get into the kernel. If the fact that this can happen spooks corporations or the general public, then well, they've not been paying attention.
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted Apr 29, 2008 6:04 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link] As happened with Shem Multinymous's contributions?
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder (Wired) Posted Apr 30, 2008 8:03 UTC (Wed) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] Well, sure, but... it's pretty clear that Shem only has problems because he (she?) makes a point of being *obviously* pseudonymous. If Shem used, I dunno, "Robert Hines" as a pseudonym instead, then no-one would have ever looked twice before accepting the patches.
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