Hans Reiser Sued By Own Kids For $15 Million

New submitter haruchai writes "The Reiser kids, now aged 12 and 11, have had a lawsuit filed against the former Linux developer, inventor of ReiserFS and convicted murderer of the mother of his children, to the tune of $15 million. It's believed he may have hidden assets and a judgment is sought so a search for these can be conducted." A judge denied requests that the kids testify or return to the U.S. for their own well-being.

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"sued by own kids"

[mfwitten]

Sure...

His kids don't know what the heck is going on. As always, the kids are just tools in the machinations of the adults.

Wouildn't his kids inherit his money anyway?

[GodfatherofSoul]

Hmmm, I guess the guardians can't wait that long. Besides, what are they going to do if he doesn't cooperate, throw him in jail?

Re:Wouildn't his kids inherit his money anyway?

[icebraining]

The bank didn't "earn" that money either. The only earned whatever fees and/or interests contracted with the account holder. If they hold it for 30 years, then they have 30 years of fees to subtract from the account, nothing more.

Re:Wouildn't his kids inherit his money anyway?

[RabidReindeer]

"Pro bono" is short for the Latin phrase pro bono publico, meaning "for the Public Good". Implying that the work will be performed for free as the profit is a better world for everyone.

As opposed, to "Pro Sunny Bono", which means that you can sue people for copyright infringements on works your great-great grandparent did and to which you contributed nothing.

Re:How is this tech/science/... related?

[Compaqt]

Come on, man, you know perfectly well why the story was posted: because it's going to get upwards of 200 comments and a whole lot of pageviews because we're all morbidly interested in the nextgen filesystem developer turned murderer.

Now, what you really meant to say is: Fellow geeks, we ought not to take interest in this story.

Children that sue?

[wvmarle]

I wonder who really initiated the suit. Not likely the kids: what do they know about money, at that age, let alone law suits? Why would those children suspect the existence of hidden assets? They probably don't even know what the word means.

So other than these two children, who's going to benefit? Is this initiated by some lawyers that do the suing on behalf of the children? Is it initiated by their legal guardian who hopes to get access to (part of) that money?

Re:Maniacs, all maniacs

[EdIII]

I don't know if you are trolling, or seriously believe the shit your trying to sell....

Open source versus closed source is not an indication of a trust in a persons professional capacity or ethics. To try to say that this man's mental state is any way indicative of all mental states of open source developers is just offensive and stupid.

As for trust being placed in a high level developer of any software platform, it is actually a benefit when the source is available. You see, it then becomes inherently possible, to actually check the code and verify it independently. When it is closed source, trust is all the more important, because their word is all you are ever going to get.

The very fact you mention Microsoft products being chosen over random open source products takes away any claim to an impartial position. Where are the plethora of closed source software vendors in that statement?

You think closed source is more looked at? Really?

"Real life recursions". Yeah.... Open Source never, ever, does any kind of recursion testing. You got me there.

There are closed source platforms that you can add scripting to do basically anything. Some platforms are designed to be extensible, even while closed.

Who checks the code they run? If you are making any modifications, plenty of people.

Once again.. back to trust. Well Cisco is a closed source provider and they just screwed the pooch big time in the trust department when their users "just trusted them" and allowed automatic updates.

Unbelievable.