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December 22nd 2006 at 9:44 am in I just caught this Wired article through Slashdot. Hans Reiser, the creator of ReiserFS — a computer file system — is currently in jail because he’s suspected of murdering his wife. (Yeh the tough reality is that the moment somebody dies or disappears, the spouse is the number one suspect.)
He was actually already arrested on the 10th of October earlier this year. *
According to his lawyer, it seems he doesn’t have enough money for his defense and so, Mr. Reiser is seeking to sell his company, which of course could be sad if it falls into the hands of people that want to exploit the rights to the filesystem, close it and sue the hell out of every open-source implementation.
Well, the most sad thing here of course is the fact people worry more about the filesystem than this guy and his family…
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