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Hans Reiser Interview from Prison

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-paris-is-out dept.

JLester writes "Wired Magazine has an interview this month with Hans Reiser (of the ReiserFS journaling file system for Linux) from prison. It contains more details about the murder case against him. Some of the questions still go unanswered though."

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  1. If OJ can get away with it... by perdelucena · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... why can't Heiser?

  2. Re:Come on Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know but why hasn't anyone commented on the fact that he was recently attacked in prison? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hansattacked.jp g

  3. Did he by Themer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Get remarried in there yet?

  4. Re:Kids better of where they are by artificial_grey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hans' mom was at Burning Man when Nina first went missing? Yea...the kids are probably better off in Russia

  5. Re:Kids better of where they are by ledvinap · · Score: 0, Troll

    You have never been in Russia, right?

  6. russian culture of violence by peter303 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Probably borrowed some money from relatives in his down years and never fully paid back.

  7. Re:obHumor by ShieldW0lf · · Score: -1, Troll

    See, he should have killed all those in the justice system that took his kids away, instead of just stopping at his ex wife.

    I feel back for the guy. But that's what you get for going to America, Hans.

    --
    -1 Uncomfortable Truth
  8. He did it for teh Lunix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've listened to Hans over the years in lkml. He's an odd one. He might be a genius, it's possible, if he played well with others he'd almost certainly be a community hero. It's also possible he has some severe emotional or mental problems, maybe mild autism, I'm no psychiatrist but I'd say that this is more than possible and probably likely. He also has this incredible quality to completely ignore what someone says and just focus on what he wants. It's like he's incapable of comprehending English (or any human to human language) when he's in this sort of fit. That's why rfs4 isn't in the kernel, all he had to do was play nice with others and answer their concerns, it'd be done by now if he did but every question was always answered with some fear or something completely unrelated. You can ask him a question and he hears something else, he'll respond but it's like he didn't see or hear your question. Then at other times he's remarkably lucid.


    But isn't all that exactly why one would become part of the lunix community in the first place? I mean, if someone played well with others, they would simply use Windows. And if someone in the Lunix community were completely lucid, they would simply work on creating a text editor. The fact that he tried making something tangible truly makes him a lunix community prodigy.

    Maybe he can spend his prison time figuring out how to get Lunix to auto-detect and auto-configure hardware as well as Windows95. It might just be ready for the desktop by the time he gets parole.