[TriLUG] Fwd: Hans Reiser leads cops to wife's body.

[Ron Joffe]

On Thursday 10 July 2008 10:13, Greg Brown wrote:
> > But that brings a more serious topic to hand. One of the ideas behind
> > incarceration is the idea that the convict is "Paying back society".
> >
> > Couldn't we have Hans pay back society by continuing to work on an open
> > source
> > project ?
> >
> > Ron
>
> Punish him by allowing him to continue doing exactly what he was doing
> before he elected to commit his crime?  Um... no.

Punish him by removing his freedom of movement, but have him pay back to 
society by working on open source (actually any open source would do).