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Comment by xenoterracide

18 years ago

:(

Here I was hoping he didn't do it...

I hope it doesn't reflect poorly on the open source community. Next thing you know they will be calling us murderers.

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staunch  18 years ago

> Here I was hoping he didn't do it...

We still don't know if he did.

  • ardit33  18 years ago

    "We still don't know if he did." -- well the us justice system thinks he did it, that's what matters.

  • xenoterracide  18 years ago

    guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. although, I suppose I don't really trust the US justice system. I've seen people I know innocent get convicted recently. But his behavior is unfortunately highly suspect.

ken  18 years ago

Open-source got off easy:

"Hora speculated that Reiser might have choked his wife, based on little evidence except that Reiser was a black belt in judo, a martial art where choking is a specialty."

Judo, meaning "gentle way", is apparently the martial art that teaches you how to kill your wife.

  • ComputerGuru  18 years ago

    I can just imagine it: "And Hans Reiser was heard arguing with his wife - just like he'd practiced for years on the mailing lists of open source communities where overly-violent and highly-sensitive people are known to dwell and practice verbal abuse quite often."

  • rbanffy  18 years ago

    As a kid, I had a few years of Judo training and I have never learned how to choke a person. From my experience, Judo is about catching or throwing opponents off-balance (often with their unwilling help) and disarming and immobilizing them so they can't harm you.

    Of all martial arts, Judo is one of the gentlest. I can hardly imagine using it to kill someone who does not really want to get killed.

    As for Mr. Sturgeon, misreporting a crime, specially if it's done with the intention of compromising a murder investigation, is a serious offense. I am not sure why the police didn't get him.

    And, while we are at it, it is a real no-no do screw your friend's wife.

    This case begs for an appeal.

    • astine  18 years ago

      'Jujitsu' means gentle art, but it's all about breaking arms and snapping necks. I took Judo as a kid as well, chokes holds are permissible amongst the older classes, and I learned a few as well as some escapes. It's really just a sparring version of Jujitsu and black belt could easily strangle someone who didn't know how to defend himself.

      Still, this is a lot of speculation and if he strangled her, where did the blood come from? I think that it is quite likely that he killed her, but not with a choke-hold.