Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Apr 2008 08:21 UTC, submitted by Jason Slack
In October 2006, Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS filesystem, was arrested under the suspicion of the murder of his wife, Nina, who had disappeared off the face of the earth after dropping their two children off at Hans' home. The two were divorced, and fighting a legal battle over ownership of the Namesys company and the custody of their children. Even though the body was never found, he has been declared guilty of first degree murder.
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RE: My filesystem was written by a murderer!
by zombie process on Tue 29th Apr 2008 13:40
in reply to "My filesystem was written by a murderer! "
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So you feel "compassion" for someone who is enough of a childish, tempermental damage case that they beat their spouse to death, later citing "She drove me to it, she was being bitchy and I just lost it?" If a person is enough of a c*nt that they cannot step away from their wife and/or kids when they're had a "bad day" they deserve the grinder just like a hardcore predator IMNSHO. Accidentally killing someone in, say, a bar fight or something might be different, but preying on the weak, whether you know them intimately or not, is f--ked up.
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2005-08-12
I do think he's guilty. I don't understand how he was charged with 1st degree though. I don't usually feel contempt for perpetrators of "crimes of passion" -- which I believe this was -- but his unrepentant behaviour picks me, so it's a little hard to feel sympathy.