Why do you think that her being a mail order bride makes it less bad?
If anything it just shows that he wanted to buy another human that he could control and, when it turned out not to be the case, he decided to kill her.
I am not going to touch on your other points as you clearly have decided your mind.
> why a mistake he committed in personal life would make his file system a taboo to touch.
He is no longer here to fix bugs or improve the file system, it is not that it's Taboo to touch per se. The benefits of ReiserFS are no longer clear compared to alternatives, there's a cost to including ReiserFS (which Reiser acknowledges), no other FS is associated with the name of a premeditated murderer.
Before entering a post-verdict deal for a reduced charge to give up the location of his victim’s body, Reiser was convicted by the jury of first-degree (specifically premeditated, even though there alternative ways to get that charge in California) murder, meaning that the trial jury found that the evidence presented at trial eatablished that beyond a reasonable doubt. The facts supporting that conclusion are public. It may be possible to reasonably disagree with the jury’s conclusion, but it is beyond silly to describe it as opinion supported by no known facts.
Why do you think that her being a mail order bride makes it less bad?
If anything it just shows that he wanted to buy another human that he could control and, when it turned out not to be the case, he decided to kill her.
I am not going to touch on your other points as you clearly have decided your mind.
> why a mistake he committed in personal life would make his file system a taboo to touch.
He is no longer here to fix bugs or improve the file system, it is not that it's Taboo to touch per se. The benefits of ReiserFS are no longer clear compared to alternatives, there's a cost to including ReiserFS (which Reiser acknowledges), no other FS is associated with the name of a premeditated murderer.
> premeditated murderer
This is an opinion and not something backed by any known facts.
Before entering a post-verdict deal for a reduced charge to give up the location of his victim’s body, Reiser was convicted by the jury of first-degree (specifically premeditated, even though there alternative ways to get that charge in California) murder, meaning that the trial jury found that the evidence presented at trial eatablished that beyond a reasonable doubt. The facts supporting that conclusion are public. It may be possible to reasonably disagree with the jury’s conclusion, but it is beyond silly to describe it as opinion supported by no known facts.