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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.
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.
And yet GP (gweihir, here) strongly implied that the OPs trolling was indicative of all "opponents of FOSS"-- and got modded +5 for it. Double standard much?
Im not saying YOU'RE wrong, its just wacky how someone can say almost anything supportive of FOSS on this site and get modded up for it.
So if you hold my money for years, then I want it back, you have to give it to me and get nothing extra. But if I die without instructions then you get to just keep it? Seems like that gives you the wrong sort of incentive.
His mouth was what got him convicted in the first place. The prosecution's case against him was circumstantial. It was fairly good, but as I said circumstantial, no physical evidence, not even any evidence his wife was dead. While they can and do get convictions on that (they wouldn't bring it to trial if it never worked) it is harder.
There is a reasonable chance he may have gotten off had he kept his trap shut and let his legal team work. They did have an at least somewhat plausible theory: That his wife had run off to Russia. While that isn't without issues to poke holes in, it might just have been plausible enough, combined with the lack of physical evidence, to generate reasonable doubt.
However he insisted on taking the stand and that was the end of him. Between his completely arrogant attitude and his logical inconsistencies, the prosecution was able to just skewer him on cross examination, sealing the outcome.
The problem is he has a sever case of something many geeks seem to have: Smartest Motherfucker in the Universe Syndrome. He really believes he is WAY smarter than everyone else and he's not afraid to let everyone know it. While he may consider that he's doing people a favour by "enlightening" them to his superior intellect, most people see that as being an arrogant prick and don't like him for it. Also, it leads him to believe he can get away with shit like, say, murder. He can do as he pleases because he's so much smarter than everyone, there's no way those poor dummies can ever catch up with him.
Hence, this bullshit. He still thinks he's smarter than the courts, the police, the lawyers.
The only reason the bank protected peoples' money for many years in the first place, and why Switzerland draws so many international deposits, is because they have (IMO) a long history of completely ignoring illegal deposits and are complicit in money laundering. They are the first bank of criminal enterprises that want guaranteed security without fear of disclosure or seizure. Why else do you think they were the bankers of the Nazi's? Why else do you think most of the worlds wealthiest citizens and biggest despots store "hidden" money in swiss accounts?
The Swiss have always been the bankers for the evilest people in the world and they have been because they don't care who you are or where your money came from. According to the lawsuit the US government is undertaking against the Swiss banks they not only solicited but actively assisted US citizens in hiding assets. Investigations by other countries have revealed the same pattern of behavior. There is a bit of purity in not caring about where the money came from, but a lot of that money is covered in blood and the Swiss have never cared.