Hans Reiser to Sell Company

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday December 21, 2006 @05:09PM from the will-order-bits-for-cash dept.

DVega writes "Due to increasing legal costs, murder suspect Hans Reiser is seeking to sell his company. His lawyer William DuBois said he is running out of money to pay for his defense. DuBois added, 'This is a unique opportunity for someone to buy the company for pennies on the dollar. We welcome all vultures.' This is a good opportunity to own a filesystem and rename it after your own."

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Heh,, by aero2600-5 · 2006-12-21 17:11 · Score: 4, Funny

AeroFS.. I bet that would bring a lawsuit from Microsoft..

Aero

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Mising poll option by iriefrank · 2006-12-21 17:14 · Score: 5, Funny

CowboyNealFS?
An opportunity for someone by Nybble's+Byte · 2006-12-21 17:18 · Score: 4, Funny

to make a killing.
Unintended pun? by BigDumbAnimal · 2006-12-21 17:20 · Score: 5, Funny

he's seeking to sell off his open-source file system company, Namesys, to help pay mounting legal costs.
Aww... by Cl1mh4224rd · 2006-12-21 17:34 · Score: 4, Funny

FFS!

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Re:time for the linux community to intervene by Dissman · 2006-12-21 17:52 · Score: 4, Funny

CowboyNeal did it. In the parlor, with the bookend.

*puts clue game away.*
sounds fishy by theMerovingian · 2006-12-21 18:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Reiser was arrested Oct. 10 after the Oakland Police Department found small drops of blood in his house and on his Honda CRX.

I'm not sure I'd want to buy a company from someone driving a Honda CRX...

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Re:This is sad ... by theMerovingian · 2006-12-21 18:03 · Score: 5, Funny

A truck driver frequently traveled through a small town where there was a courthouse at the side of the road. Of course, there were always lawyers walking along the road. The truck driver made it a practice to hit any pedestrian lawyers with his truck as he sped by.

One day, he spotted a priest walking along the road and stopped to give him a ride. A little further along, as he approached the town, he spotted a lawyer walking along the side of the road.

Automatically, he veered his truck towards the lawyer, but...then he remembered his passenger. He swerved back to the center, but he heard a "whump" and in the rear view mirror he spotted the lawyer rolling across the field.

He turned to the priest and said, "Father, I'm sure that I missed that lawyer!"

And the priest replied, "That's OK, my son, I got him with the door.

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Re:WinFS by Fyre2012 · 2006-12-21 18:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, DOS is an Operating System. ReiserFS is a FILEsystem.

If you mean Windows should drop NTFS, purchase this, rebrand it and have it ready for Vista's release, than i think you're either trolling or a little naive.

heh, maybe Hans was in deals to sell it to MS (WinFS), but his concience ate away at him, and he ultimately refused. In return, they killed his wife, and now they get their FS on the CHEAP!

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Re:This is sad ... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-21 18:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Also found inside the car, according to police, was a roll of trash bags, masking tape, a siphon pump, absorbent towels and two books: "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," by David Simon, about the Baltimore police homicide squad, and "Masterpieces of Murder," by Jonathan Goodman, about notorious murder cases.
Apparently there was nothing in those books about disposing of evidence.
oh great by circletimessquare · 2006-12-21 18:44 · Score: 5, Funny

here comes the GoldenPalace.com file system

those guys will buy anything if it gets them a free bit of news/ pr

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the most tasteless entry? by Tumbleweed · 2006-12-21 18:47 · Score: 5, Funny

The IToldYouNotToBotherMeWhenImCodingBitch file system.
1. Re:the most tasteless entry? by Tumbleweed · 2006-12-21 20:23 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You are so going to hell. ;)
  
  Maybe, but at least I'll have a killer filesystem once I get there. :)
Re:This is sad ... by ozbird · 2006-12-21 19:00 · Score: 5, Funny

All in all, I'd say its not looking good for him.

Are you sure? Try this Cluedo on for size: "Mr Ballmer, in the Honda, with the front seat."
Re:This is sad ... by networkBoy · 2006-12-21 19:03 · Score: 4, Funny

"Apparently there was nothing in those books about disposing of evidence."

To be fair, it would appear that there was no direct evidence in the car. Problem is, like most ultra-super-uber-freaky_cool-keen-whazit geeks he attacked the problem programatically, and the circumstancial evidence was an unhandled exception. Talk about kernal panic!
-nB

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Possible name by SeaFox · 2006-12-21 19:04 · Score: 5, Funny

OJSystem
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(for Open Journaled System, of course)
Re:This is sad ... by CoderDevo · 2006-12-21 20:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Also found inside the car, according to police, was a roll of trash bags, masking tape, a siphon pump, absorbent towels and two books: "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," by David Simon, about the Baltimore police homicide squad, and "Masterpieces of Murder," by Jonathan Goodman, about notorious murder cases.
Lastly, a box containing the first two drafts of "How I did it," by Hans Reiser.
Re:Vultures by Mr2cents · 2006-12-21 21:15 · Score: 5, Funny

If ReiserFS uses a magic value somewhere, I suggest it to be changed to 0xDEADBABE.

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Re:This is sad ... by 1u3hr · 2006-12-21 21:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Note to self: destroy copies of "Smartest Guys in the Room" and "Corporate Crime" after installing my program to skim the excess fractional pennies due to rounding bank transactions.
Don't forget to get rid of your Superman III and Office Space videos.
Re:This is sad ... by rbanffy · 2006-12-21 21:55 · Score: 4, Funny

And you have a right to a free lawyer

Can I fork the lawyer and rename it?

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Re:This is sad ... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-21 23:42 · Score: 4, Funny

> What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

A good start?
Re:This is sad ... by bythescruff · 2006-12-21 23:45 · Score: 5, Funny

"But it's sadder to see a innocent person goto prison."

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

Yes, gotos are evil.

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Re:I'll pay 10x revenues by m-wielgo · 2006-12-22 00:34 · Score: 5, Funny

wait, .002 dollars or .002 cents???
Re:Vultures by ded_guy · 2006-12-22 02:40 · Score: 4, Funny

It puts the 'stab' in fstab!

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