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So I married a Kernel Programmer

everybody loves eric raymond episode 57 strip

Hans Reiser has not been termed a suspect in his wife’s disappearance

219 replies on “So I married a Kernel Programmer”

I didn’t know there was a line but I think you just crossed it. Oh,and fuzzix, whether I’m offended has nothing to do with whether I think this strip should be posted. I respect the author’s right to free speech. Please respect my right to express my distaste.

In addition, Reiser alleged that Sturgeon wrote into a contract that Reiser must participate in ‘Death Yoga,’ which he said has the purpose of
‘slowing down one’s heart to the point of death.’

At least from the referenced article Reiser sounds perhaps unhinged.

Leach — was it good to butt-fucked the restrained shark? I’m sure many of us would like a morsel of that.

Would have been funnier if Hans was growing dancing trees and not petunias.

Also, I hope he didn’t actually kill her… =/

Also, I find the usage of the blink tag interesting.

Interesting in the “Schroedinger’s cat is not dead” sort of way.

Maybe they just arrested him for being an asshole. You know, by reputation it’s not unbelievable that he’d made his non-knowledge of his wife’s disappearance known in a way that the cops would find suspicious. Still an asshole, but… reasonable doubt, anyone?

The spouse is always the prime suspect. I’m sorry to hear he has been arrested for it, though. That kind of thing is really hard to recover from if it turns out to be an error.

I think the comic is brilliant, and in perfect alignment with the spirit of ELER. Keep up the good work (though it would be nice to see the good work appear a little more frequently than it has been), and don’t listen to the naysayers.

>>the spirit of ELER.
The spirit of ELER is ridiculing open-source people who shoot their mouth off (ESR’s blog), have quircky amusing personal habits (St iGNUtius) or silly ideas (bitkeeper).

I fail to see how the disappearance of someones ex-wife fits the formula.

>>and don’t listen to the naysayers.

The “naysayers” are just here to remind the author that if he wishes to shift the demography of his readership to fourteen year old internet tough guys, he only needs to keep this up.

I love the smell of (self) righteous indignation in the morning.

Why is it people’s first reaction to something they don’t like is to demand it be removed, destroyed or banned? Free speech as long as I agree with what you say, is that it?

Don’t like it? Go elsewhere and leave us ’14 year olds’ in peace you humourless old codgers.

>>I love the smell of (self) righteous indignation in the morning.

That much is obvious.

>>Why is it people’s first reaction to something they don’t like is to demand it be removed, destroyed or banned?

removed, destroyed, banned ? Oh my….

>>Free speech as long as I agree with what you say, is that it?

Is what what now ? A strawman ? Why yes.

>>Don’t like it? Go elsewhere and leave us ‘14 year olds’ in peace you humourless old codgers.

Exactly my point, but thanks for not reading anyway.

I’m not really caring so much about the free speech issue at hand here. I just think that this strip is in bad taste.

Yeah, there is the fact that this person is in the F/OSS world. However the more important thing is that there is a woman missing, possibly dead, and the family does not need to have this matter taken lightly.

I come to this site for a laugh every so often. I’m sorry that you have sunk to this level. If you’re really out of good fun ideas for this strip just give it up. Going for this type of crowd just taints all the fun you’ve brought out before.

Sorry, this was pretty funny. Even today. Nice comic. It would have been funny even if Hans hadn’t been arrested too by the way, and if he’d been totally innocent, which of course he still is technically speaking.

However, if you watched some of the police news conferences, it went from 10 days ago Hans Reiser not being worth following because the OPD doesn’t have the manpower to do that to, after the DNA test, the OPD devoting at times 24 hour per day tailing of Reiser.

If I was Reiser, I’d be very very worried right about now. And if I was him, I’d be starting to make sure that, if innocent or guilty, my defense attorney is of the very highest quality money can buy. Guilty or innocent, that’s what is going to get you off in either case.

But the strip itself was really funny no matter the fact that reality caught up.

>I fail to see how the disappearance of someones ex-wife fits the formula.

Hans has been on the ELER hitlist for some time prior to the disappearance of his wife on the basis of his overwhelmingly abrasive personality and of his constant failure to interact sanely with any community he comes into contact with (and , to a lesser extent, the weird 3D model people on the Reiser4 page). I would’ve thought anyone remotely familiar with Hans wouldn’t need to be shown the connection between his insane social interactions and this week’s strip.

> The spirit of ELER is ridiculing open-source people who shoot their
> mouth off (ESR’s blog), have quircky amusing personal habits
> (St iGNUtius) or silly ideas (bitkeeper).

Killing your wife is pretty silly.

This is in supremely bad taste. It’s also the funniest thing I’ve seen about the whole crazy Reiser affair. Keep up the good work!

p.s. I reckon it was the government what did it. I mean, Namesys was sponsored by DARPA but farmed out most of the work to Russians. Reiser4 still hasn’t made it into the kernel mainline, and Hans has always been ‘difficult’ to work with. This is the US government’s way of saying ‘thank you’ for all the hard work.

This isn’t libel, it is satire. In the united states satire is well protected in the law. In various lawsuites, people have gotten away with all things in satire they couldn’t say in direct speech.

>>the spirit of ELER.
The spirit of ELER is ridiculing open-source people who shoot their mouth off (ESR’s blog), have quircky amusing personal habits (St iGNUtius) or silly ideas (bitkeeper).

I fail to see how the disappearance of someones ex-wife fits the formula.

>>and don’t listen to the naysayers.

The “naysayers” are just here to remind the author that if he wishes to shift the demography of his readership to fourteen year old internet tough guys, he only needs to keep this up.

Very well said!!!

Sorry, didn’t mean to make it seem like I wrote the entirety of the last message. I meant to just add the very last line.

Lime is correct, as even a cursory google search will show. Google is your friend, learn how to use it.

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