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Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)Posted Dec 10, 2008 10:12 UTC (Wed) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired) by johnnymack Parent article: Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)
Why should it ?
Come now. People are people. There are saints and sinners of all magnitudes in all communities, this doesn't really reflect on the community as such at all, unless you can show that community-values encourage or discourage certain behaviour (be it good or bad).
That a convicted murderer contributed to Linux kernel-development does not reflect negatively on the Linux-kernel in the least, nobody in their right mind would even claim that that community encourages such behaviour.
Likewise, Microsoft (and all other large companies) have employees that commit various criminal acts, be it murder or other things. This also does not reflect on them in any way, aslong as there's no link from their corporate culture and to the crime comitted.
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Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired) Posted Dec 10, 2008 21:36 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Given that no part of human society is free of murderers, saying that 'a
Linux kernel developer was a murderer' is just another way of saying 'a lot of people are Linux kernel developers': eventually one *had* to be a murderer. (To pick another rare category, Linux developers are not barred from becoming saints, either. Thus, eventually, by sheer statistics, one *will* be canonized. We just might have to wait a while. A long while. Come back in five hundred years.)
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