linux-kernel - Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:04:46 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1

Alan Cox wrote:
>> And yes, I think Hans lost his right to decide over the name because of 
>> what he has done. That is no disrespect for his work, only for him as 
>> person in general, and I do strongly disrespect him as a person.
> 
> So should ever reissue of a work by Gary Glitter have the name removed
> from the cover, every opera by Wagner have the name removed for his
> attitudes ?
> 
> History is a one way street, and you might as well have the fs known the
> way it is so that people remember "reiser oh wasn't he the guy who.." -
> unless you are trying to market the fs I guess.
> 
A one way street indeed, I see no reason to rename the f/s since the 
association will remain. People who follow Linux will know anyway, and I 
doubt most people will remember one more guy who killed his wife during 
a nasty divorce. Sad to say there's a lot of that around.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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