Man what a wild ride ReiserFS has been. I remember when it was the mainline FS in a lot of Linux distros. Good on Hans to right some wrongs. Prison has done some good on him
Hans credits his improved social and communication skills learned in prison among other details shared in the public letters.
I thought prisons were meant to cause more trauma and help ensure people never leave so as to increase profits?
He is locked in California, a fairly progressive and leftist state i think , I am not entirely certain all that therapy is a good thing, i think i watched a documentary saying that psychopaths only learn from therapy how to be better manipulators and i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.
With that said if he gets out of prison i think he should be allowed to participate in FOSS (when someone reviews his contributions), i can’t help but wonder if his reportedly unhinged behavior on the kernel mailing list was handled better (e.g. mandating he will go to therapy) the murder would not have happened.
The prisons he was in previously definitely are not the touchy-feely kind. These days he’s in California Health Care Facility, which is geared toward prisoners with significant mental health problems (notably, multiple serial killers). So, therapy of some kind definitely makes sense. However, Reiser’s been denied parole each and every time he’s been up for it (next review in 2025), so it is unlikely that he’s getting out.
i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.
I think it’s rash to judge the tone of his writing like that. It can be a struggle to identify and admit one’s flaws, and it’s certainly a struggle for most people of the modern era to write elegantly with only pen and a few sheets of paper.
Some prisons might be better than others, some people might be able to withstand the system within and work on themselves.
The guy had a friend who admitted to 8 murders and he himself murdered his wife who was the translator for a Russian mail order bride catalogue… Woah. Its hard to believe a person like that could contribute to open source.
You are discussing on a platform created by a man who praises people like Lenin & Castro. Richard Stallman resigned over some comments on Epstein victims. Free software is like that sometimes.
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If you aren’t far left then you are far right!
Also, these leaders have little in common and I don’t know where you got the idea Mussolini is a western hero
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How is Hitler a hero? Or Biden anyone else on there don’t know do won’t comment.
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A person like what? There’s no connecting thread between morality, emotional maturity, and programming skills.
Who is going to stop them. It’s not like there’s a gatekeeper.
whats the recommended method of dealing with old reiser partitions once kernel support gets removed?
Kill them?
Too soon
How petty - I’m surprised the kernel team allowed that crap in the first place. This should have been changed the day that murderer was convicted.
No need to change something if there’s no reason to. A murderer of wife he may be, but that wouldn’t change what happened in the project. It’s also possible that since it wasn’t all that popular outside of memes nobody even checked.
It’s a readme. You don’t need a huge reason to remove bs like this. Using documentation in the kernel source tree to air grievances shouldn’t be allowed.
