On the conviction of Hans Reiser [LWN.net]

On the conviction of Hans Reiser

Posted May 1, 2008 1:00 UTC (Thu) by jsevy (subscriber, #37869)
Parent article: On the conviction of Hans Reiser

Out of curiosity, what's the policy of the California State Penal System regarding his ability
to get information on open-source development, communicate with the development community, and
contribute to development efforts? Are computers permitted in penitentiaries?

Other inmates have been published authors, journalists and artists - is it possible for Hans
to continue to contribute to open-source development from "within the walls"?

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Posted May 1, 2008 1:56 UTC (Thu) by quozl (guest, #18798) [Link]

Interesting question ...

Signed-off-by: the prison.

compile by mail

Posted May 1, 2008 9:58 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

As long as he is willing to write code on paper and mail it to someone else outside prison to compile it, I'm sure it is viable. Then the correspondent can send compiler output back by snail mail. It makes for relatively long compile cycles, but so does chess by mail. When you have years to kill...