"The man I am now would do things very differently," Reiser says in long letter.

This made me so weirdly sad. I remember this guy; he was well known for being technically skilled but a huge pain in the ass for everyone to work with, and it’s weird to see how resigned he is now to his prison life.

He belongs in prison obviously, but it’s so, so strange hearing how his time being able to be a free man and just work on his technical projects that he’s passionate about, is such a faraway memory for him now.

  • Jeena
    23•6 months ago

    Very interesting to read. I remember doing reasearch back then around 2005 or so which filesystem I should use on my gentoo installation and with a lot of small files it seemed raiserfs to be the best for my use case. So I started using it.

    Later I heard about what the guy did and I figured I will need to switch next time I reinstall it because that guy won’t be able to fix critical bugs from inside the prison.

    • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
      3•5 months ago

      I love that the issue is not using a tool made by a murderer but that he’s not going to be a reliable maintainer lol