[NMLUG] Recent conclusions on distros

[sbrowne at ix.netcom.com (Steve Browne)]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:01:36 -0600 (MDT), you wrote:

>> 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.

The way the news media has carried the story is that Novell is
dropping the Reiser FS because of the murder charge.

My main point is that the incidents of someone's personal life is only
of peripheral interest to what useful concept/product they have
created. My impression is that there are many IT professionals who
understand the Reiser filesystem beyond Reiser himself.

Secondly, Reiser is only ACCUSED of something so my analogy of one
major crime to another is illustrative and no more.

And OpenSuSE sucks.

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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