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Code by itself isn't often very useful, the community around it is often far more valuable. It's hard to know if someone who's committed antisocial acts didn't

Code by itself isn't often very useful, the community around it is often far more valuable. It's hard to know if someone who's committed antisocial acts didn't leave landmines in code or is hard to work with when it comes to support of issues or community discussions. Hans Reiser (reiserfs) is a murderer, and I think it's hard to justify working with someone like that.

vezzy-fnord 11y ago
It's hard to know if someone who's committed antisocial acts didn't leave landmines in code or is hard to work with when it comes to support of issues or community discussions. No, I don't see how that follows at all. It's hard to know these things in general. Your adding of the qualifier "committed antisocial acts" is poisoning the well. Paul Reiser (reiserfs) is a murderer Hans Reiser. And his being a murderer has no relation to the technical quality of the file system. That said, ReiserFS is largely dead, and Hans Reiser is in prison anyway, so you can't work with him even if you wanted to.
- bro-stick 11y ago
  Minor issue, corrected. Yes, I'm well aware. The leader of the FLDS still runs his town from prison, so you're wrong. For all we know, Hans is still coding on pencil and paper or on a computer. The bigger issue: Should violent felons whom happen to produce something others value be embraced with blind, warm, happy-clappy love and trust? I think not.
  - vezzy-fnord 11y ago
    embraced with blind, warm, happy-clappy love and trust You sure do have very low standards if you think anything going on here is equivalent to "happy-clappy love and trust".
  - mappu 11y ago
    >Should violent felons whom happen to produce something others value be embraced with blind, warm, happy-clappy love and trust? The person is not the code. Working code can be used and valued regardless of who contributed to it.

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Code by itself isn't often very useful, the community around it is often far more valuable. It's hard to know if someone who's committed antisocial acts didn't

by bro-stick 11y ago

vezzy-fnord 11y ago
It's hard to know if someone who's committed antisocial acts didn't leave landmines in code or is hard to work with when it comes to support of issues or community discussions. No, I don't see how that follows at all. It's hard to know these things in general. Your adding of the qualifier "committed antisocial acts" is poisoning the well. Paul Reiser (reiserfs) is a murderer Hans Reiser. And his being a murderer has no relation to the technical quality of the file system. That said, ReiserFS is largely dead, and Hans Reiser is in prison anyway, so you can't work with him even if you wanted to.
- bro-stick 11y ago
  Minor issue, corrected. Yes, I'm well aware. The leader of the FLDS still runs his town from prison, so you're wrong. For all we know, Hans is still coding on pencil and paper or on a computer. The bigger issue: Should violent felons whom happen to produce something others value be embraced with blind, warm, happy-clappy love and trust? I think not.
  - vezzy-fnord 11y ago
    embraced with blind, warm, happy-clappy love and trust You sure do have very low standards if you think anything going on here is equivalent to "happy-clappy love and trust".
  - mappu 11y ago
    >Should violent felons whom happen to produce something others value be embraced with blind, warm, happy-clappy love and trust? The person is not the code. Working code can be used and valued regardless of who contributed to it.