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To: HAL9000
Well son of a gun.

... though a headline of "Linux visionary ... murder ..." is a bit of a gratuitous swipe at Linux.

It's not like Linux has much to do one way or the other with Hans Reiser's downfall, other than that's what he happened to work on.

2 posted on 04/29/2008 4:55:15 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)
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To: ThePythonicCow

Do you honestly believe if Bill Gates was convicted of murder that the word Microsoft wouldn’t be included in an article describing same?


3 posted on 04/29/2008 5:01:32 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: ThePythonicCow

It doesn’t seem like a gratuitous swipe to me. When a person already slightly publicly known does something unrelated, it’s not uncalled-for to note that when describing them for the first time in the article. If it were Bill Gates, it would probably be “Microsoft founder Bill Gates convicted of murder”...or maybe not; in his case he’s SO well known that no explanation might be thought necessary.


4 posted on 04/29/2008 5:02:47 PM PDT by Still Thinking ((Typical white person))
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To: ThePythonicCow
Let's see how other sources headline this:
Linux guru Hans Reiser convicted of first-degree murder
TheRegister
Software engineer found guilty of wife's death
San Francisco Chronicle
Reiser found guilty of first degree murder
ZDNet
Oakland software programmer found guilty in wife's death
Associated Press
Hans Reiser found guilty of first-degree murder in wife's death
San Jose Mercury News
Hans Reiser guilty of first-degree murder
CNET

7 posted on 04/29/2008 5:07:05 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)
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To: ThePythonicCow

Maybe it’s time for someone to start a “Thug Linux” distribution.

[Little sardonic humor there.]


10 posted on 04/29/2008 5:12:12 PM PDT by familyop (Worthless male weekend warrior has-been trash with no degree.)
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To: ThePythonicCow
.... though a headline of "Linux visionary ... murder ..." is a bit of a gratuitous swipe at Linux.

Puhleeze. He's a complete nobody apart from that. It wouldn't be a headline otherwise. Next you're gonna claim "racism."

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I have a funny feeling about the Java guys, myself.

15 posted on 04/29/2008 5:21:36 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("resort not to force until every just law be defied")
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