Hi all, Those of you who are slashdot regulars probably know this but those who don't :
Hans Reiser the author of the ReiserFS file system is going to give his plea(guilty/not guilty/manslaughter .....) today(actually tonight as its in California) over the charge of his wife's murder. You can check the Wikipedia page for the whole story :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
i'm sorry for such a horrible post, but i believe people ought to know. By all accounts this is the most morbid and macabre post ever on this list. Never the less, people have to know.
Regards,
- vihan
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:56, Vihan Pandey wrote:
Hi all, Those of you who are slashdot regulars probably know this but those who don't :
Hans Reiser the author of the ReiserFS file system is going to give his plea(guilty/not guilty/manslaughter .....) today(actually tonight as its in California) over the charge of his wife's murder. You can check the Wikipedia page for the whole story :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
i'm sorry for such a horrible post, but i believe people ought to know. By all accounts this is the most morbid and macabre post ever on this list. Never the less, people have to know.
People only have to know if the decision affects reiserfs development. People do not have anything to do with this otherwise. It is not peoples' place to pass judgements in public over someone they're not remotely concerned with otherwise.
Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
People only have to know if the decision affects reiserfs development. People do not have anything to do with this otherwise. It is not peoples' place to pass judgements in public over someone they're not remotely concerned with otherwise.
++1, Whatever it is, whom ever it is, IMHO their public life should not be a matter of discussion, until and unless the same has some effect on the subjects of our concern. Surely, a developer being sent to jail or sentences will affect the project, but the reaction should be rather on how the project is taken further in the future than about the corresponding developer.
Just my thoughts!
On 28-Nov-06, at 4:56 PM, Vihan Pandey wrote:
i'm sorry for such a horrible post, but i believe people ought to know
it is a horrible post - horribly OT, and you have not mentioned that in the topic
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:30, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
People only have to know if the decision affects reiserfs development. People do not have anything to do with this otherwise. It is not peoples' place to pass judgements in public over someone they're not remotely concerned with otherwise.
Correct. In this case the riserfs file system will most likely see it's slow / stalled progress IF the accused is convicted. Otoh gpld software has the remerkable ability to outlive things like developers, hardware, dependencies etc.
People only have to know if the decision affects reiserfs development. People do not have anything to do with this otherwise. It is not peoples' place to pass judgements in public over someone they're not remotely concerned with otherwise.
Correct. In this case the riserfs file system will most likely see it's slow / stalled progress IF the accused is convicted. Otoh gpld software has the remerkable ability to outlive things like developers, hardware, dependencies etc.
slow yes. stalled not sure coz after all its opensource :) .since novell supports / prefers / watever reiserfs they might have some developers fill in till.
i dont think this is OT coz i remember reading somewhere a quote from Hans that he chose to work for free s/w and it didnt pay well enough to sustain family. it was quite a dampener to read coz large orgs like osdl / ibm / rh / novell / oracle / sun etc etc etc have a responsibility to foster growth of free s/w through fostering growth of people by either employing them or if they donot wish to be employed by a commercial org then possibly have research / scholar grants for free s/w or opensrc
HRB
-- Rgds JTD
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 01:27, Harsh Busa wrote:
i dont think this is OT coz i remember reading somewhere a quote from Hans that he chose to work for free s/w and it didnt pay well enough to sustain family. it was quite a dampener to read coz large
He is also reputed to have a nasty temper and has had continuos spats with many of the kernel developers. Which might have made him un emloyable. Most organisations need cart horses rather than highily strung race thorough breds.
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