On Friday 15 February 2008, Erik wrote: > What do you mean by "Hans is a weird person."? Do you know him > personally or did you just "read it somewhere"? I only saw a video > lecture with him talking about namespaces and filesystems (he seemed > perfectly normal there at least). And I use his filesystem > (reiser3.6), which has worked perfectly for over 3 years on my > laptop. How likely is it that he would have committed such a crime? > What motive would he have?
read the lkml archives. read the current blogs about how Hans is conducting himself in a court of law. Read his statements to the police when questioned about his wife's disappearance. Read his defense. Read his website. What comes out of that? Hans Reiser is a typical geek who has a problem seeing the same reality as the rest of the world. It's very common amongst geeks, and we can mostly spot it a mile off. It's not rocket science. I also use ReiserFS-3.6 and it is a very good filesystem. That is one thing. There is this other thing, which is the ability to musrder someone, and that is totally unrelated to the ability to write self-balancing filesystem metadata trees. Any associated opinion between his skill as a coder and the likelyhood of his having murdered or not murdered his wife is an illogical opinion in extreme. > That sounds like the perfect way to harm the free software community. > Make some important person's wife disappear. You must be new here. Hans Reiser? Important? I don't think so. In the general scheme of things he's about as important as ESR. If you wanted to bring free software into disrepute there are many much more likely targets: Linus, Alan Cox, Ingo, RMS, drobbins, Theo, Andrew M, Patrick V, Miguel, David R. > Is there any > organization out there who would do something dirty to harm us if > they could get away with it? How trustworthy is the Russian police? > Is the Russian legal system working satisfactory? Look at the case itself. Hans has a distorted view of reality as seen by the rest of the world. His wife is apparently a bitch of note. That's motive #1. You want a likely suspect for who could have framed him? Try the disappeared wife's current boyfriend. Tons of suspicious actions there - read the court records, it's all in there. This whole court case is entirely explained by human greed and emotion in marital affairs. It is not necessary to involve free software to come to an entirely reasonable explanation, in much the same way that the Enron CEO's hobbies do not feature in the explanation of the collapse of Enron -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
