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Hans Reiser arrested on charges of murder…

It’s so scary. I really don’t know what to think about it. I’ve met Hans once, I have very deep respect to his work, and I believe that reiser4 is the future of file systems.

I think it’s the first time ever, when open source, computer world breaks so deeply into the real life for me. I always try to split those two, having the Real Life and the Virtual Life go side by side, but rarely crossing each other.

Whenever I read about someone passing away, it shocks me a bit. It’s like a moment of change when you realize that the guy who commented on your blog, the guy you spoke on IRC for so many times, they guy you drank with talking ’bout future of the Internet or even a person you just read news posts of is really not alive anymore. It probably touches somehow my personal problem with dealing with an issue of death, but I always remember that I feel very strange at those moments.

And now, Hans, a man with the vision, a man who spent so many years to make the world a better place by introducing next era of file systems is arrested, accused of terrible thing, flattened into one event which will change his whole life and how we’ll remember him.

He might be innocent, I know. But what rings in my head is that this person, famous Hans Reiser, is not working on reiser4, he’s in jail, his wife is probably dead, his children are probably in deep trauma. It’s so far away from what should be happening now.

I hope, hope so much that he’s innocent. That she’s alive. That there was some huge mistake made by a lot of people leading into current situation, and that it’s possible to revert it all.

Yea… naive one, right? :(((