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Alan McKinnon написа: |
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> On Friday 15 February 2008, Erik wrote: |
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>> What do you mean by "Hans is a weird person."? Do you know him |
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>> personally or did you just "read it somewhere"? I only saw a video |
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>> lecture with him talking about namespaces and filesystems (he seemed |
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>> perfectly normal there at least). And I use his filesystem |
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>> (reiser3.6), which has worked perfectly for over 3 years on my |
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>> laptop. How likely is it that he would have committed such a crime? |
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>> What motive would he have? |
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> read the lkml archives. read the current blogs about how Hans is |
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> conducting himself in a court of law. Read his statements to the police |
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> when questioned about his wife's disappearance. Read his defense. Read |
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> his website. |
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> What comes out of that? Hans Reiser is a typical geek who has a problem |
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> seeing the same reality as the rest of the world. It's very common |
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> amongst geeks, and we can mostly spot it a mile off. It's not rocket |
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> science. |
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> I also use ReiserFS-3.6 and it is a very good filesystem. That is one |
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> thing. There is this other thing, which is the ability to musrder |
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> someone, and that is totally unrelated to the ability to write |
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> self-balancing filesystem metadata trees. |
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> Any associated opinion between his skill as a coder and the likelyhood |
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> of his having murdered or not murdered his wife is an illogical opinion |
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> in extreme. |
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>> That sounds like the perfect way to harm the free software community. |
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>> Make some important person's wife disappear. |
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> You must be new here. |
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> Hans Reiser? Important? I don't think so. In the general scheme of |
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> things he's about as important as ESR. |
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> If you wanted to bring free software into disrepute there are many much |
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> more likely targets: |
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> Linus, Alan Cox, Ingo, RMS, drobbins, Theo, Andrew M, Patrick V, Miguel, |
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> David R. |
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>> Is there any |
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>> organization out there who would do something dirty to harm us if |
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>> they could get away with it? How trustworthy is the Russian police? |
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>> Is the Russian legal system working satisfactory? |
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> Look at the case itself. |
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> Hans has a distorted view of reality as seen by the rest of the world. |
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> His wife is apparently a bitch of note. That's motive #1. |
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> You want a likely suspect for who could have framed him? Try the |
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> disappeared wife's current boyfriend. Tons of suspicious actions |
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> there - read the court records, it's all in there. |
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> This whole court case is entirely explained by human greed and emotion |
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> in marital affairs. It is not necessary to involve free software to |
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> come to an entirely reasonable explanation, in much the same way that |
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> the Enron CEO's hobbies do not feature in the explanation of the |
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> collapse of Enron |
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Hi, |
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Just a note here, using reiser4 for 4-5 months, no problems so far. |
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Patches are more difficult to find but not that much. |
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More choice is better IMHO. |
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