I'm waiting for the day that some hacker puts together their own open-source pacemaker (running Linux of course) that people have installed by back alley surgeons. The idea kind of reminds me of the eyeball transplants from Minority Report. I'm willing to bet stuff like that will happen someday.

I really feel sorry for the guy. Regardless of whether or not he committed the murder, he was a good programmer and an important member of the open-source community. It is too bad that brilliant people are often plagued by mental instability. I hope that Reiser is really innocent and simply did a lot of weird things that were indicative to murder. I can imagine that if he was innocent, he probably felt that people were out to get him, but simply had to way to articulate a reasonable response to the charges. I certainly hope that the truth about his wife's whereabouts becomes known, regardless of the innocence of Reiser.