Calm down, everyone

As others here have noted, murderers are not always primitive types of low intelligence - they
are, however, always murderers. We probably don't know enough to really make a judgement of
his character either way - there are cases where one can understand and even sympathise with a
killer, and there are cases where a person kills without a shred of conscience, "just
because".

Leave that to one side, though. We, in the open source community, pride ourselves of being
open, so let us not try to sweep it under the carpet. I agree that sensationalism is utterly
distasteful, turning the suffering of others into entertainment; however, just like we don't
try to hide problems with our SW behind lies, but step right up to task at hand and take
responsibility, we should not try to explain this away. Instead, those of us who have admired
him for what he has done for OSS should perhaps take a moment to reflect on the dangers of
hero-worship. No man is so good that there is nothing bad in him; nor so bad that there is
nothing good.