Re:Faces of Open Source
by Beltiras on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @06:38AM
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I think we all know why Hans Reiser isn't there.
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Re:Faces of Open Source
by BuildTheRobots on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @07:05AM
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His filesystem was revolutionary and open source and should be mentioned in there - in fact I'd still go to him if I needed a filesystem.
I would not go soliciting marriage advice though :(
More seriously, I think it's wrong to sanitise technological and scientific history when afterwards it's decided that someone isn't a good person. Footnote to that effect; sure. Leaving them conspicuously absent, less so.
edit: though, as the photographer is seemingly taking the portraits himself, I can imagine some devs are easier to get to than others.