Comments on: Reiser reportedly leads police to wife's body

Linux programmer convicted in April of murdering his estranged wife leads police to what is believed to be her body, authorities tell the San Francisco Chronicle.

[Dead Soulman]

They should exhume the lady's remains, shoot this a--hole in both legs, then arms, then stomach, then each lung, then the heart, and finally, the head. Maybe he'd feel a little bit of the pain he imposed on victim. The nerve of the bastard. The worst of it all is the lawyers, knowing damn well the bastard did it, sit in court defending their client as if it was a saint.

[The_Decider]

Yeah, shame on those lawyers for performing their duties required by law. Since everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty, I guess they were wrong to defend him. Or only wrongly accused people afforded rights? Frikken moron.

[YankeePoodle]

I surprise myself and others by turning on my computer and breathing. Here is the shocker, I actually write code and use my left-brain logic. Damn!!!

[YankeePoodle]

What is most shocking is, that he not only killed his ex-wife, but assassinated her character in courts saying that she plotted and eloped with someone to Russia with all the money and I for one almost believed the crap he spewed on her.

The shame is that he lead to the dead body as part of a plea bargain.

[The_Decider]

What is shocking is that someone who would write this can even turn on a computer, or even remember to breathe.

[Penguinisto]

True - the guy seems a bit off-balanced. Or damned devious (just not devious enough).

[YankeePoodle]

The_Decider,
Go Get a Doughnut.

[joetesta70]

Linux = built by a murderer

[The_Decider]

joetesta70 = moron

ResierFS is a file system, which is not part of the Linux operating system.

[Penguinisto]

Linus Torvalds is a murderer?

[kingttx]

joetesta70's comment = written by a dill-weed

[joetesta70]

Linux = built by a murderer

[Galaxy5]

He'd have gotten off a lot lighter if he'd admitted a crime of passion to begin with. He probably wouldn't have gotten anything beyond enhanced manslaughter. Now he is on record lying to the police, the courts, and the public - plus he was rude to the judge. Stupid, venal geek.

[The_Decider]

Yup, you nailed it. At least she will get a proper burial and he will rot for a very long time.

[unknown unknown]

@ joetesta70 not quite. Reiser's contribution was a file system, which isn't even the default on most Linux packages.

[WJeansonne]

Dumb Linux nerd wasn't so smart after all. Couldn't even control his emotions. Apparently he had the emotional intelligence of an crocodile--zero.

[Penguinisto]

Tautology alert. How can one control or not control their emotions if they have none, genius?

[The Tominator]

Hopefully in this rare instance a murderer will get what he has coming.

[saludevil]

Divorce laws are causing untold murders! Change these archaic, greedy laws so that fathers have equal rights to their children. Don't condemn this man until you've walked in his shoes. The divorce courts and lawyers are the REAL murderers! [CNET editors' note: spam deleted]

[Techno Guy]

@saludevil, arguing that child-custody laws are the reason Hans Reiser murdered his wife is profoundly stupid. Are child-custody laws stacked against fathers? Maybe so. But you undermine your cause by justifying a brutal murder as a reasonable response to any such child-custody inequities.

[ezratay]

I think @saludevil means that these laws push a lot of men to do thing they wouldn't do normally. I'm not defending Hans, but I have seen a lot of good guys get into trouble with the law because the divorce laws either hit them in the pocket or prevents them from seeing their children. We should all have more self control over our emotions but that's not the case in any society.

[Techno Guy]

@saludevil, arguing that child-custody laws are the reason Hans Reiser murdered his wife is profoundly stupid. Are child-custody laws stacked against fathers? Maybe so. But you undermine your cause by justifying a brutal murder as a reasonable response to any such child-custody inequities.

[SeniorD]

WHY does this reporter feel the need to start this article off with:

Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of murdering ...

As if the operating system environment has any applicability to the story. Would it be less important to the reporter if Reiser worked in Windoze?

[jahf]

@ SeniorD

Why did the reporter start the article that way?

a) I wasn't interested in the story until I read that. In fact I had skipped over this story twice on 2 other news sites because I didn't realize that. Yeah, I'm a bit geeky, I've even exchanged emails with Reiser a few years ago related to the file system ... so I'm an edge case ... but it definitely supports why they would put that there.

b) had this been a Microsoft employee who had, say, created NTFS do you think they wouldn't have put that in the article? Sure they would have. And many many more people would have queued into it because of that.

No reason to assume there was some weird OS bias in this article. It briefly mentioned a key way that some people would know of him. That's all.

[Penguinisto]

That pretty much explains it all, right there.

[The_Decider]

What?

"In fact I had skipped over this story twice on 2 other news sites because I didn't realize that. "

"Yeah, I'm a bit geeky, I've even exchanged emails with Reiser a few years ago related to the file system"

So you skipped over the articles about Reiser because you didn't know he was a programmer but you emailed him a few times?

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[Nael]

The article should of READ:

Hans Reiser, a convicted murderer in April for the murder of his wife, has led police to her body, according to San Francisco Chronicle on Monday.



In April, he not only murdered Nina, but he further assassinate her character, image and slander her with the power his tongue. Hans Reiser is a pathological liar that is insecure and a plain loser who should never see the day light again.



To drop this to second degree murder to shave 10 years off his sentences to spare his life is a injustice to Nina and to law abiding citizens. The DA should retract their deal as this was in the interest of Justice to recover her body.



Hans Reiser premeditated the murder of his wife as his son watch him drag her body in a rolled up carpet to dispose of the evidence. And this is justice!

Justice is the death penalty with immediate carrying out of the sentences. He obviously thought he was the judge and jury when he took Nina's life, so the same should be applied to him.

It's funny to see three strikes law puts a person a way for life but murder for only 15 years. What justice is this ?

[The_Decider]

How is the death penalty justice?

It is revenge.

It fits the legal definition of murder. So I guess we should put the judges, prosecutors, jurors, and those that carry out the murders on death row as well.

[The_Decider]

If they retract the offer you can forget about the state ever recovering a missing body again. Is that in the interests of justice or the victims families peace of mind?

[agreddon]

I agree that there isn't a direct cause and effect to child custody and this murder. However, you cannot solve one and ignore the other. From what I can see Nina Reiser obtained Russian citizenship for her children. That sort of thing should be prevented. She didn't deserve to die because of it, but if she was getting ready to move the kids halfway around the world from their father that's another issue.