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Comment by mpalczewski | Hacker News Reader

Anything to prevent them from changing the name of the filesystem?

Even if they do this cosmetic change now, take effort deal with silly regressions and reeducating users, it will still take quite some time for people to stop parroting in every thread about $newfs, that it's about “$newfs, previously known as reiserfs, originally authored by a convicted murderer”. This ship has sailed long time ago. Maybe there aren't that many users remaining now to begin with.

Why erase history? It happened, and it's interesting.

Entities rebrand all the time, because humans associate qualities with names. New name makes room for new associations.

Because companies may not want to be involved in a product called "PersonWhoIsConvictedWithMurder-FS".

Let history be. But rename the project to something like ChameleonFS. Hans Reiser's mentions will still be in the git history.

At my previous job, we used reiserfs. We generally referred to it internally as murderfs.

Not that I think that's good rebranding, but it did amuse us.

This sounds like it would have been a fun place to work

Honestly it was really great until it wasn't. I was there for almost ten years. The pay left a bit to be desired, but for the most part, everything else was so awesome that it was cool.

Then after some management changes, everything that made it great melted away and we were left with a job that underpays, has poor work-life balance, doesn't appreciate employee time/contributions, etc. It was still a pretty difficult decision to leave; management issues notwithstanding, the group of coworkers I actually worked with every day were - and still are - really great.

Companies associated with all kinds of crimes exists everywhere. For recent war crimes, you can search yourself. For WW2, there is even a wikipedia list of companies involved with the Holocaust. One of them even own RedHat Linux now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...

Companies have no shame. As long as the thing increases profit, they will use it.

I've seen plenty of forks that were also renames

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