Hi, Tom,
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote:
>
> even closed, unfree, paid for software usually comes with a link so I
> can find more description (rather then 'more fail-safe 386 XMS move'),
> download it, see fee ( '25$ per PC'), limitations ('not for military'),
> price and more.
>
> but 'can be requested from ...', meaning
> 'on a good day, ... might decide to send you a copy.
> on a bad day, NOT.'
>
> is the stupidest thing I have read for a long time.
> this has no place on this list, and you should know that.
It has been that way since he got very abusive verbally, on- (and
off-) list, right before he was banned (July 2015) from freedos-user.
He hid the download URL on purpose.
It makes absolutely no rational sense to me, but he's irrational. He
wanted to punish us (and me) for imaginary offenses that he took the
wrong way unfairly. (The only public claim he made against me was that
I said "the drivers don't work anymore", which is 100% proven true for
Mar-18-2015 version. That's literally it.)
His actions include:
1). not responding or taking any useful action on the SF.net bug
tracker that Jim Hall created for him (where I was conveying info
to/from him)
2). refusing to let me announce or mirror his drivers (until he could
announce them himself, but SF.net "bug" permanently prevented it)
3). going closed source (directly to spite me, which he said with many
insults to me, even though I did nothing to him)
4). hiding the DropBox URL of his liaison where his releases were
semi-published (in anger against us, yet again)
5). trying to lie and claim "tainted" on 2015 open-sourced versions of
his drivers, to try to force Jim Hall to panic and remove them all
from iBiblio
6). (again) adding FreeDOS "prohibitions" even in his closed-source
drivers (several times, even in 2017)
I don't know why Eric is still so obsessed with relaying new
information about it to us. It's useless. "Just use Linux! [DOSEMU2]"
> it's even stupider as most readers of this list have no email address
I know the email of his liaison and corresponding website (where
extensive version history is listed). I can easily point you to it
privately, but I think it's pointless (and then some!).
Here's just a small snippet, just to show you how "useful" these
drivers are for us:
15-Jul-16: Use of these drivers with FreeDOS is now PROHIBITED!
13-Jan-17: FreeDOS restrictions deleted
1-May-17: FreeDOS prohibitions re-added
Yes, totally sane behavior for a man who intentionally "gave up" on
FreeDOS and then later (due to abusive language) was explicitly banned
from the mailing list two years ago! (He's already obsessively had 13
updates this year alone. It's very annoying at this point. I just
don't care.)
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