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The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict

Posted by timothy on from the work-from-home dept.

perlow writes "Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would like to talk a little bit about how this verdict will impact the technology in play for file system dominance in our favorite Open Source operating system, Linux."

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  1. Re:Article a bit one-sided? by Traxxas · · Score: 5, Informative

    True, the other developer moved the code and patches to his server months ago when the namesys.com site went down.
    Rieser 4 Patches and Programs

    According to the article they are still in active development. They got patches for the 2.6.25 kernel so somebody is still working over there.
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