[OT] Hans Reiser

[Luke -Jr]

On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Leo Mauler wrote:
> Hans Reiser, the developer of the Reiser filesystem, murdered his wife Nina
> Reiser about 2 years ago (to avoid hefty child support payments), was 
> convicted of the crime, has already shown authorities where he buried her 
> body, and is about to start a 15-years-to-life prison term for that murder.
> As the primary developer of the Reiser filesystem, and owner of the
> Namesys company which develops ReiserFS (which is unable to pay any
> employee's salary while he is incarcerated), Reiser4 development ground to
> a halt during his trial, and is likely to simply die off.

I'm not trying to justify murder, nor do I care or use ReiserFS in any 
revision, but with the abuse from both Nina and the state, I don't think Hans 
carries the full guilt of his crime nor should be portrayed in that light.