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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.
How is it pathetic? It's just opinion about the mental state of FOSS developers, as illustrated by recent real world case of highly trusted person. It's akin to a CTO choosing Microsoft products instead of random open source products. Sure, there are bad people inside companies too, but the code is more looked at and there are real life recursions.
Open source is just released to the wild and can do anything. You can of course modify it, but who even checks the code they run? They just trust it.