Hans Reiser in Court Today

An anonymous reader writes "Hans Reiser has pled not guilty to murdering his wife and invoked his right to a speedy trial. He will attend a hearing today where the judge will decide if the state has a case " We had covered this story back when it had first broke; and for those of you playing catch-up, Hans is the author of ReiserFS.

Just check the history

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I'm sure you'll find that our good friend Hans has no record of this ever taking place.

Re:Just check the history

[dattaway]

If the file doesn't fit, you must acquit!

Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares about Hans Reisers ran-away-bitch when Hans Reisers filesystem destroyed my 250GByte of porn as soon as the hdd was full?

There, I said it, reiser4 sucks! That's news for nerds.

Re:his wife

[Anonymous Coward]

He didn't directly kill her... He was trying to explain why reiserfs was better than ext4 and her head exploded.

The butterfly effect

[Joebert]

In addition, police said the couple's son said he overheard his parents arguing on the day Nina Reiser disappeared. The boy, who was playing video games in the basement at the time, said his father told him not to come up from the basement, police said.

See, there's no reason to fear abandonment of the Reiser FS if this dude gets locked up.

Re:Just check the history

[Anonymous Coward]

She's in the lost+found. No big deal.

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

And that sort of comment is probably substantially more controversial than mere allegations that he guy murdered his wife.

police said

[LM741N]

That he tried to delete the evidence from his computer, but unfortunately he was using a journaling file system.

Re:Give him a laptop and let him work

[Anon E. Muss]

Prison is for punishment. He should be forced to write Windows software. :-)

Re:Free Hans

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh great, here comes the Net BSDM / Linux flamewar...

Re:Think about his kids

[millwall]

Hi, I'm Italian and I would like to know if there is a bank account to send the money. Thank you.

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department BANK OF AFRICA .

In my department we discovered an abandoned bank account you can use for your purpose. We won't charge you anything - in fact we will double your donations.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter for further clearifications.

Yours faithfully,
DR AMIRI BABO

Re:We had covered this story...

[AlexMax2742]

That's to make up for the fact that digg ran about five stories a day on him, not counting dupes.

Has she been found yet?

[Opportunist]

I mean, seriously, anyone who's ever touched Reiser knows that there are things that go missing from time to time, but sometimes they reemerge without you doing anything whatsoever. Maybe they should just sit there and wait, maybe rearrange a few pieces of furniture and I bet she'll suddenly and mysteriously appear in the middle of the living room.

Yes, I do agree, we need a "tasteless" tag.

Re:Free Hans

[dangermouse]

Yeah, the cops have always had it in for linux developers.

Replacement for ReiserFS Announced!!!

[Eradicator2k3]

It'll be called IFIDIDITFS.

Re:Plenty of time to write code

[glwtta]

They'll just start hurding all of us coders into 'state correctional institions'

Gods, that'd be even worse!

Re:Think about his kids

[oliverthered]

Dear Friend,

        A relitive of mine has reciently passed away leaving a fortune of $1,000,000.
I need a way to transfer the funds to an account in the US. Could you please provide me with the details of the account you mention so that I can complete the transfer. When I'm done I will leave 40% of the money transfered in the account.

Mr A Nigreian.

Re:Plenty of time to write code

[ray-auch]

Luckily you know you've got decades to avoid that particular fate...

Re:We had covered this story...

[djdavetrouble]

"We had covered this story back when it had first broke; "

More HAD please !!!

(and more cowbell)

I know who did it

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft murdered Nina Reiser and framed Hans for it. They just couldn't take all the heat reiserfs was putting on ntfs!

Re:WRONG

[Sloppy]

This is why I love Slashdot. Some places have too much absurdity; some places have too little. Anonymous Coward on Slashdot tends to strike the perfect balance.

Re:his wife

[Anonymous Coward]

Or yoga death sex related.

Not how it's done.

[Kadin2048]

Here in America, most technologically advanced country in the world, we have transcended your silly electronic transfer systems. Instead, we write the amount of money we wish to send on little rectangular pieces of paper, which we then send to the person to whom we'd like to send the funds, who takes it to their bank, who forwards it back to the original person's bank, who transfers the funds electronically. It's quite state-of-the-art, I assure you.

i can see it now...

[Sfing_ter]

the DA running around to get the jury pool filled with XFS, JFS, EXT4 and some snarky EXT2 developers...

Re:MOD PARENT UP

[Ced_Ex]

Kid has a good head on his soldiers

The kid must be a Marine.

The OJ of Open Source

[Anonymous Coward]

This guy is the OJ of Open Source ... his very troubled relationship with a seemingly wayward wife has culminated in this sad episode.

Re:Compass first, GPS second; always.

[AsnFkr]

What's on/by rivers?

Bears?

Dvorak couldn't freeze

[Cid Highwind]

With a heart of ice and a head of solid granite, Dvorak is like +20 against cold. He'd just stumble out of the mountains months later with an implausible story about finding Apple's secret underground research facility (where they're developing the top-secret "Vista Ready" iMac) and how RMS, Google's black helicopters, and a troop of Mac fanboyscouts conspired to kill him...

Re:his wife

[Monkey]

Or maybe he caught her running ext3.

Re:Why I think Nina Reiser is dead

[Doctor O]

And only on /. can this be modded +3, Insightful.