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Hans Reiser to Sell Company
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."
It's even funnier because he has to sell the company to pay the lawyer.
If he turns out to be innocent, it will be just that much sadder -- he will have lost his wife and be ruined. A justice system that is so where money often plays such a key role in influencing the outcome is a very disfunctional justice system.
As a company owner, this thing is so sad. But on the techinical aspect, ReiserFS has better numbers in i/o, read and write that ext3, but many, many times, the way Hans conducts himself, lead to more and more people running away from ReiserFS.
Novell have just switched from reiser to ex3 at opensuse 10.1 or 10.2, I can't remember well, and this was the last "mayor" distribution supporting it. Any way, his company was loosing value, even more, his company is more like a one man company that a group of people. I doubt Namesys has CMMI, or follows any structured development strategy, so, buying a company whos best product is the sole creation of his owner is a very, very bad move.
I hope he gets some money for his company.
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Out here in the Rest Of the World it is considered one of the first pure Hot Hatches. People race them, you know.
I thought it was a bit strange when mythbusters needed a small old car to trash and a viewer gave them a Fiat X1/9 which he described as "that piece of euro shit which has been cluttering up my drive way for five years". Where I live people pay big money for that exact car to do up and drive around in. Maybe Americans should just ban foreign cars on the basis of job protection.
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The CRX is a fun old toy but as cars go, it's a piece of shit, in Europe and elsewhere. Get over it. (Posting anon to save my karma from the ricer mods.)
Can they actually prosecute a homicide with no body?
What would happen if he were convicted, and then Ms. Reiser shows up?
How can you claim someone is guilty of murder before you have declared the
victim is dead? Or if the victim is dead, has life insurance been collected, for instance?
I really don't see how you can have "murder" without a body, remains of a body, or some specific claim as to how the body was disposed of.
On the other hand, I *can* see how you could justify holding such a suspect without bail, sort of.
He should, at a minimum, explain where the seat from his Honda can be found. Seems like that might clear up a few things. (They locate that seat, find it isn't covered with blood and bone fragments or whatever they expect to find... That sort of thing would be pretty embarrassing to the prosecution, I'd guess.)
Of course, if I were a betting man, my money would not exactly be riding on Hans' innocence. The car seat bothers me a lot. (The State of California is required to presume his innocence, but I am not, unless I happen to get called on his jury...)
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Ummm.... It says he needs the money to help pay for his defense. I understand the "what about the children" concern, and I would normally agree with you. The article makes it pretty clear that his current concern is making sure he has a decent lawyer instead of a shit bag public defender that's less inclined to put up a fight. I suppose that if he does get off on a lack of evidence (no body), he would make sure his kids are taken care of, if he can. Child Protective Services would probably fight to keep his kids away from their father under the pretense that he's possibly dangerous.
Things don't look well for him at this point anyway....
...I read topics of people having various non-eating related cookbooks in their homes on Slashdot, and each time this is referred to as "innocent reading material" (or something along those lines) rather than a prelude to terrorism - even though the police could view it in that way when someone is arrested on related charges.
The finding of this book (I'm not talking about other findings) and supposing any connection of this book to the murdering is therefore kind of not-Slashdot like : he could just have been generally interested in murder, perhaps a big CSI fan or something ?
It's supporting evidence at most.
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If in order to defend yourself, you have to have a company and even sell it, then for all practical reasons there is no justice for the majority of people. I find this state of affairs troubling, and I was wandering if you could sue "justice". ie, the justice ministry for example.
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Besides the grammar problems.. i use reiser 3.6 as my home partition's filesystem and although i'm not a power user
(i didn't nor i have investigated how to tweak the filesystem to squeeze the most out of it) i haven't any problem with it.
I don't think MS would be a good buyer for this technology (and as stated in some other comments, MS tend to prefer *stealing* the technology instead of buying it) both because they already have a fairly decent one (ntfs is _closed source_ but not _bad_) and because its PR like to let people think that they own the technology they sell, they always have and always will (i may be the average ignorant guy but i never heard of the companies that originally developed hyper terminal or MS anti-spyware before MS bought those).
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What did she actually do? Can you summarize?
Disclaimer: IANAL. This post is, however, legal advice, and creates an attorney-client relationship.
The Fiat X1/9 *is* a piece of shit though, unless you do one hour of maintenance for every hour you get to drive it. They are terribly fragile and unreliable unless you do a great deal of maintenance. Americans are used to cars that are built like tanks and do 300,000 miles needing only oil changes and perhaps a new set of spark plugs every so often.
While the X1/9 is probably a good car to do up or to own as an enthusiast, it's no good for a daily drive because it's so unreliable. Many European cars built at around that time were also pretty terrible, reliability wise - even if they WERE very stylish and nice to drive. I loved my old Mini - good fun, timeless design - but reliable it was not. It needed constant maintenance. The vast majority of Americans aren't prepared to put up with cars that need constant maintenance.
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Dude, welcome to linux. Windows has One File System(tm) because... it's easier. Linux has 129 filesystems because 129 different people think each one is the best at what it does.
I love linux, but sometimes too much choice is a bad thing. If linux was a car, there'd be 18 steering wheels and no air conditioning, but you'd be able to change the radio stations from the hubcaps.
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Yes, sometimes file system types can make a performance difference. Using ReiserFS is going to help out when you're doing stuff with lots of little files, yes. How much? I dunno. Will most people be happy with ext3? Yes, absolutely. ext3 will do pretty much everything you need it to do. However, when you choose a filesystem type in the fdisk menu on linux, there are literally this many: I'm not saying there aren't holes in my arguement, but... it's hard to deny that's a crapoload of filesystem types. Now, it's not Linux's fault (or GNU or whoever wrote fdisk) that there are that many options.
But this is a symptom of a greater problem in Linux - it's desire to be every thing to every one. And not in a "get on my bandwagon or get the fuck out" type scenario, like you have with Windows - but a location for everyone to dump any pet project that they have ever made, and eventually we have 43 window managers, 2 Xservers, 18 mail dameons, 97 web browsers, 9 different sets of wireless networking tools (none of which work for more than 3 chipsets), 812 shells, 14 IM clients, 84 Mp3 players, and four office suites. Boy, if you like choice, linux is the place to be. But, some of us find it a bit overwhelming at times (mainly, when "some of us" have to do desktop support for linux).
I can't help but wonder if all the people who are working on different, paralell projects pooled their efforts where Linux would be today.
And as I've been saying for 4 or 5 years now on Slashdot, all I ever wanted out of linux was a universal clipboard with a universal API for cutting and pasting. We now have windows that wobble with hardware accelerated graphics (FC6). Great. I'd like to be able to cut and paste.
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I love your comment. It's small and really to the point of the state of Linux and the community in general. I personally enjoy the GNU/Linux ecosystem but there are too many choices sometimes. It seems as if the trend is to start a new project/distro/fork whenever someone believes that they could make something better, faster, slimmer, etc... Don't get me wrong, I love the amount of choices but I would rather see more consolidation of efforts. Instead of making a new distro with minor changes/patches, contribute to a major one... etc... Sometimes it's as we are going in circles.