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Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made By Hans Reiser (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

While ReiserFS is obsolete and will eventually be dropped from the upstream Linux kernel in Linux 6.10 is one last ReiserFS change that was requested by former lead developer Hans Reiser.

ReiserFS lead developer and convicted murderer Hans Reiser a few months back wrote letters to be made public apologizing for his social mistakes and other commentary.

In his written communications he also made a last request for ReiserFS in the Linux kernel: "Assuming that the decision is to remove [ReiserFS] V3 from the kernel, I have just one request: that for one last release the README be edited to add Mikhail Gilula, Konstantin Shvachko, and Anatoly Pinchuk to the credits, and to delete anything in there I might have said about why they were not credited.

Hans credits his improved social and communication skills learned in prison among other details shared in the public letters.

Per the indirect request by Hans Reiser, SUSE's Jan Kara has now altered the ReiserFS README file with the changes going in today to the Linux 6.10 kernel.

The change landed today as part of the linux-fs merge to Linux 6.10.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

That’s actually surprisingly wholesome. It’s always wonderful to see people really putting in the effort towards personal growth. It’s good for them, and it’s also good for everyone else.

[–] loops@beehaw.org 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hans credits his improved social and communication skills learned in prison among other details shared in the public letters.

I thought prisons were meant to cause more trauma and help ensure people never leave so as to increase profits?

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

He is locked in California, a fairly progressive and leftist state i think , I am not entirely certain all that therapy is a good thing, i think i watched a documentary saying that psychopaths only learn from therapy how to be better manipulators and i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.

With that said if he gets out of prison i think he should be allowed to participate in FOSS (when someone reviews his contributions), i can't help but wonder if his reportedly unhinged behavior on the kernel mailing list was handled better (e.g. mandating he will go to therapy) the murder would not have happened.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like it is impossible to know enough details to make any kind of conclusions. I do not think foss should check criminal records though.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So who’s going to check.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

That's why you can't check records

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

The prisons he was in previously definitely are not the touchy-feely kind. These days he's in California Health Care Facility, which is geared toward prisoners with significant mental health problems (notably, multiple serial killers). So, therapy of some kind definitely makes sense. However, Reiser's been denied parole each and every time he's been up for it (next review in 2025), so it is unlikely that he's getting out.

[–] colourlesspony@pawb.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's only for minorities and poor people.

[–] Huschke@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And mainly in third world countries, like the US.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh. For some reason, I thought he died a while ago.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, that was his wife.

[–] Peter1986C@lemmings.world 1 points 3 months ago

For the uninitiated: his wife was murdered by him.

[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The guy had a friend who admitted to 8 murders and he himself murdered his wife who was the translator for a Russian mail order bride catalogue... Woah. Its hard to believe a person like that could contribute to open source.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

A person like what? There's no connecting thread between morality, emotional maturity, and programming skills.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are discussing on a platform created by a man who praises people like Lenin & Castro. Richard Stallman resigned over some comments on Epstein victims. Free software is like that sometimes.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Free software is like that sometimes.

Anything is like that. The inventors of a great many things weren't good people. Just because people do great things, doesn't mean they are great people. Nazi doctors found out a lot about the human body by torturing them and/or treating them inhumanely. Probably a lot was discovered during the torture of humans and ignoring human rights (which probably didn't exist at that time).

Closed source software isn't better. It's run by people who devalue their workers, other humans, and in fact the entire world except people like them.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 0 points 3 months ago

Nazi doctors found out a lot about the human body by torturing them and/or treating them inhumanely.

That is a myth. The documentation left behind by them had little to no scientific rigor, and basically nothing of value was gained from it. The situation was even worse on the Japanese side, where even the visiting nazis thought they were going too far and, again, nothing of value was gained.