Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 9:18 PM: > Hans Reiser is a Bad Man, ergo any code that Hans Reiser writes is Bad? > > That's so illogical, it makes ma think you're a Republicrat.
For an educated man you make many assumptions, many incorrectly. I didn't say the code was bad because Reiser is a bad man. I said one of the reasons I wouldn't use ReiserFS is because its author is a convicted murderer. This has nothing to do with code, but supporting the work of a criminal. It's akin to not eating at a known Mafia owned/operated restaurant. The food is most likely fantastic, but I wouldn't eat there because of who owns the joint. I don't condone or support criminality. Novell, being headquartered in the Mormon capital of the world, Salt Lake City, Utah, announced the day Reiser was arrested (not convicted but arrested) that they were dropping ReiserFS as the default filesystem in SLED/SLES immediately, and would be moving to help permanently phase it out at customer sites ASAP. Obviously this latter part didn't happen over night as it was deployed on many production servers. Novell didn't do this because the code was bad. They did it because religious/political forces dictated they distance themselves asap from Hans Reiser, especially given competent (and some would argue better) alternatives were available. We haven't even touched the practical issues involved in continuing use of ReiserFS. This subject has been debated ad nauseam since his conviction on many fora. I'll not continue to waste time here. One great thing about Linux is choice. You can choose to support the work of a convicted murderer. I can choose not to. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b94894f.2070...@hardwarefreak.com
