[NMLUG] Recent conclusions on distros

[matt at mattorama.net (Matt Grommes)]

> On top of which Novell is backing off the
> Reiser filesystem because Hans Reiser was arrested on suspicion of
> murdering his estranged wife (or something like that) and Novell is
> too Politically Correct to touch the issue. Since when is Linux
> Politically Correct? If (hypothetically) Linus Torvalds robbed a bank,
> would the entire world drop Linux? Oh well, I don't use Reiser anyhow.

Sheesh. I've heard a lot of people blame the mythical beast of Political
Correctness for a lot of things but this takes the cake. Even if they were
dropping Reiser because of this (and they aren't), calling that
Politically Correct like it's something dirty is just dumb. And in the
future I would avoid comparing murdering your ex-wife to robbing a bank,
there's not too many points of comparison and I personally think it's
offensive to minimize murder in that way.

And anyway, the reasons discussed for them potentially dropping ReiserFS
is that they aren't sure about the future support of the system and
continuing technical problems, not anything to do with Hans's legal
problems.