I think about Hans Reiser pretty often, incidentally, because there is a quote from him I read as a teenager that stuck with me.
"The utility of an operating system is proportional to the number of connections possible between its components, than it is to the number of those components."
— Hans Reiser (from http://web.archive.org/web/20040126210110/http://unununium.o...)
It's hard to reconcile good things a person might have said and done, with the bad. That sentence is a guiding principle of software design that I cannot often quote, without entering into a huge discussion on the pain Reiser has caused. This is the only time I feel I am able to share that quote, on a thread that hopefully tries to look past the right and wrong of his actions.
Just as no one is truly good, no one is truly evil either. It is good for one's soul and humanity to acknowledge that a bad person might have done something good in their life.
ReiserFS was pretty cool as well, sad to see it go, but no one uses it anymore. I hope they'll find redemption and peace.
"The utility of an operating system is proportional to the number of connections possible between its components, than it is to the number of those components."
— Hans Reiser (from http://web.archive.org/web/20040126210110/http://unununium.o...)
It's hard to reconcile good things a person might have said and done, with the bad. That sentence is a guiding principle of software design that I cannot often quote, without entering into a huge discussion on the pain Reiser has caused. This is the only time I feel I am able to share that quote, on a thread that hopefully tries to look past the right and wrong of his actions.
Just as no one is truly good, no one is truly evil either. It is good for one's soul and humanity to acknowledge that a bad person might have done something good in their life.
ReiserFS was pretty cool as well, sad to see it go, but no one uses it anymore. I hope they'll find redemption and peace.