Hans Reiser Jury Deliberating Fate of Linux Developer

Ezekiel

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Apr 23, 2008, 10:25:58 AM4/23/08

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OAKLAND, California -- Jurors in the Hans Reiser murder trial were
instructed on the law Tuesday afternoon and have begun deliberating the fate
of the Linux programmer accused of killing his estranged wife Nina Reiser
and hiding her body.

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DFS

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Apr 23, 2008, 10:32:11 AM4/23/08

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Ezekiel wrote:
> Hans Reiser Jury Deliberating Fate of Linux Developer
>
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/hans-reiser-jur.html
>
> OAKLAND, California -- Jurors in the Hans Reiser murder trial were
> instructed on the law Tuesday afternoon and have begun deliberating
> the fate of the Linux programmer accused of killing his estranged
> wife Nina Reiser and hiding her body.

Linux is so crappy it causes people to rant and rave in anger. You can see
the mindset it engenders. Did Reiser post this?

"I don't even have a stable system and i haven't had one since gutsy!
Sometimes i just want to take my computer outside and smash it with a
sledgehammer until little shards of metal cut my hands and face open."

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587905&highlight=freeze&page=50

Ezekiel

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Apr 23, 2008, 10:41:01 AM4/23/08

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"DFS" <nospam@dfs_.com> wrote in message
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It will be interesting to see what happens here. I haven't been following
the case very closely but every now and then I check to see what's been
transpiring. Linux or not, I simply hope that justice is served and that
he's set free if he didn't do it or incarcerated if he did.

Hadron

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Apr 23, 2008, 10:53:59 AM4/23/08

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"Ezekiel" <a...@b.com> writes:

At least a cell is only two letters off a cellar (basement) if he is.

Moshe Goldfarb

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Apr 23, 2008, 12:11:21 PM4/23/08

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Maybe the Linux community can band together and send him a case of KY
Jelly?
Lord knows he is going to need it.

Notice how silent they have been on the entire matter.
Time to rewrite history and write the Reiser chapter right out of the book.

--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

Martha Adams

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Apr 23, 2008, 10:24:46 PM4/23/08

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"Hadron" <hadro...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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This is a sad story. I haven't heard anyone suggesting Reiser's
head is a little off normal -- a severe Asperger's comes to mind
-- but if any real information should appear someday about this
sorry business, I'd expect to find that in it.

I don't share the titillation some people seem to find in this
story. Rather, I think of Reiser's useful accomplishment, his
Reiserfs. Recent events have probably put him permanently out of
any further useful programming work. Is Reiserfs good enough for
someone else to pick up the work and go on with it? Is there
anyone out there who could actually do this?

Meanwhile, I'm waiting for this story to work thru to its end,
and then I'll search in cyberspace and try to find out what
actually happened with Reiser, his wife, and etc. And I expect
to find that Reiser somehow fell into a comedy of errors, where
not all the errors were his.

Titeotwawki -- mha [cola 2008 Apr 23]

Jim

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Apr 23, 2008, 11:30:31 PM4/23/08

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> This is a sad story. I haven't heard anyone suggesting Reiser's
> head is a little off normal -- a severe Asperger's comes to mind
> -- but if any real information should appear someday about this
> sorry business, I'd expect to find that in it.
>
> I don't share the titillation some people seem to find in this
> story. Rather, I think of Reiser's useful accomplishment, his
> Reiserfs. Recent events have probably put him permanently out of
> any further useful programming work. Is Reiserfs good enough for
> someone else to pick up the work and go on with it? Is there
> anyone out there who could actually do this?
>
> Meanwhile, I'm waiting for this story to work thru to its end,
> and then I'll search in cyberspace and try to find out what
> actually happened with Reiser, his wife, and etc. And I expect
> to find that Reiser somehow fell into a comedy of errors, where
> not all the errors were his.
>
> Titeotwawki -- mha [cola 2008 Apr 23]

Wired Magazine had a feature story on this a few months ago.

Subway steel

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Apr 24, 2008, 1:07:05 PM4/24/08

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"Martha Adams" <mh...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Wasn't there a company (Namesys) that was working on this. What happened to
them and why can't they continue the work?

> Meanwhile, I'm waiting for this story to work thru to its end,
> and then I'll search in cyberspace and try to find out what
> actually happened with Reiser, his wife, and etc. And I expect
> to find that Reiser somehow fell into a comedy of errors, where
> not all the errors were his.

I think it'll be over soon. AFAIK the jury is deliberating and I don't
expect that to take weeks. There was a good article in the SF Chronicle on
this.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/localnews/detail?&entry_id=25913

Phil Da Lick!

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Apr 25, 2008, 8:26:32 AM4/25/08

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I still think its fucking outrageous that a man can get tried for murder
when it hasn't been proven a murder actually took place. She's
missing. None of the facts prove beyond doubt that she's dead.

Moshe Goldfarb

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Apr 25, 2008, 10:21:12 AM4/25/08

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It doesn't matter because being married to that weirdo Hans Reiser, her
life, for all practical purposes "ended" the day she said "I do".