My best wishes go out to Nina Reiser’s family in what must be an incredibly painful time.

America, the land of opportunity.

http://www.linux.com/articles/57788

seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/127984_gregg24.html

“On Feb. 7, Feussner, a German national, was found dead after drinking ethylene glycol, the main ingredient in antifreeze. Charges against him were dropped.”

German IT professionals seem to have a really hard time in this country.

I actually blame their obsession with David Hasselhoff and Baywatch for this. It really isn’t like that at all here. It’s not dissimilar to New York where I grew up actually.

nm, I just wikipedia’d it. I always thought Reiser was German because it was the FS of SuSE. Sorry about that. Germany is cool! You aren’t all obsessed with David Hasselhoff.

I remember reading about this in Wired or some other tech magazine awhile back. Sad day for her family, but at least they’ll have closure.

Hans Reiser - what kind of name is that? That ain’t no krauts name, ain’t it?

Again, sorry for associating Hans with Germany because of SuSE Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

“In 1999, while working in Russia, Hans Reiser selected from a mail-order bride catalogue[8], and subsequently married, Nina Sharanova (Нина Шаранова), a Russian-born and trained obstetrician and gynecologist[9] who was studying to become an American licensed OB/GYN. They had two children.”

I did find this in the Wikipedia article. Nina apparently was a Russian mail order bride. I didn’t know that either.

I also read about it. It is not a very up-to-date story.

Sorry to know that..
What’s this story to do with TechCrunch?
Of let, TC has been off-topic.

The past few articles strike me as a little … Valleywag’ish … for lack of a better adjective.

I know the easiest troll comment to make is that a story isn’t newsworthy, or TCworthy, but this one really isn’t.

This is a crime story, there is no relationship at all to the general TC themes.

Even if this story was about a household TC name (this guy is not) I would still say it shouldn’t be here.

So, open source advocates are now wife beaters and killers according to TC standards of FUD?

asdf

Is this a trend for open source murders?

@10, He bought his wife out of a catalog. That’s never a good sign.
I don’t think this has anything to do with software actually.

going through his bio. on wikipedia it seems like he never really accepted the conventional way of life around him. Poor wife had to pay the price for it.

I’m sorry, but other than racking up page views, what does this have to do with the normal TechCrunch coverage? Seems like a lot of tech blogs/press are all-too-eager to jump on what is clearly NOT a tech story in order to have a chance to play crime reporter and/or bump up page views because people can’t pass by a crime scene without looking…

Wow what an idiot who commits murder now a days. At least he invented something cool before he went to jail.

You see. This is what open source does to people. These hippies think that they are “free” to do whatever they want - even murder their spouses.

When was the last time you heard of an ASP.net programmer who went apeshit and killed his wife? That’s right. You haven’t!

what a scumbag, i hope he meets a huge man in jail skilled in brute force attacks.

“Wow what an idiot who commits murder now a days.”

Because back then it was A-OK.

Excellent.

“Hey, my Linux box is powered by muderers! BEAT THAT WINDOWS.”

You should really revisit the Wired article about the case … It’s a long read but this settles the case as this guy was seriously (imagine that was all caps) crazy. The story is so twisted…

Why does it have to do with TC and technews? Well, you see, ReiserFS (at the time at least) was really revolutionary and many Linux Distros started supporting it (many have dropped the support because of this case). What was so interesting about ReiserFS? That once implemented, finding stuff around was really quick (and quicker than with any other FS, i presume).

This isn’t, though, the case of a brilliant programmer turned murderer but, IMHO, the case of a murderer who happened to be a brilliant programmer.

The whole deal is so twisted (read it effed up) that maybe we should keep to ourselves when trying to be “funny” about it. A life was lost and that’s no laughing matter (just out of respect to the victim).

I work as a San Francisco tourguide for twelve years now. With all the big computer and medical conventions here, we get a lot of these “mail order brides” on the tourbuses while their husbands attend lectures. Woman to woman, especially to a stranger like me who will never meet the hubby, they are amazingly blunt, cynical and even nasty: they admit straight out that they had to get out of a bad situation in the Third World (Thailand, Philippines, China, etc.) or in the former Communist Bloc nations, esp. Russia. They will marry ANYONE, hoping only that he has some money/work to support them until they can get their green card, their own jobs, and then bring their own families (yes, “ex-husbands” and parents and kids and aunts and uncles and godknowswhoelse!). Hans Reiser was no unwitting victim here, but let’s face it, he knew he was a hopeless nerd who could not score any American woman. He knew the Russian women were desperate and no judge of American male character. That he had money and did not drink was probably enough for them. Also, he is Jewish, and so is Nina, so that may have helped a lot in the instantaneous “hitting it off”. Nina had her goal: work as an ob/gyn in USA and take care of her own family; getting pregnant happened right away, but she knew that was the price of the overseas passage, and study-years room’n'board. Poor Nina! Poor Hans! Two people using each other; very much like the movie THE PAINTED VEIL, the sad weaknesses of emotionally damaged men, and the women who cling to them from loneliness and poverty.