Hi again, On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> He doesn't know the meaning of joy. > > Reading this thread sucks any joy from me.
Jim, I'm sorry you had to endure this (again). > Why is this thread still alive? I wanted to clarify, still more, why we're still being (unfairly) "punished". > Jack doesn't like FreeDOS, he doesn't release his drivers so that FreeDOS > users can use them But he did release them freely ... until he got mad at me (or so he claims, if you even believe that). > - and Jack's drivers are proprietary, so we cannot include them in FreeDOS > anyway. We all know that. Apparently *he* doesn't! I don't know why he can't "get" it. He still acts like we want to drink through a straw with our eyes closed and hands tied behind our backs instead of just taking a gulp like a normal person. > Rugxulo, we know you and Jack don't like each other. I don't even know him, and he doesn't know me. It's not personal. He just has lots of anger, and he (only) resents me implying that his drivers were/are buggy. But it wasn't an insult against him, and I wasn't even talking to him but instead someone else. So, for that single harebrained reason, he wants to punish all users, especially FreeDOS. > Jack doesn't seem to like me, either. But you didn't do anything to him either (AFAIK). He's just impatient that you didn't ... I don't even know what, "remove" his (old? new?) drivers???? I don't know what else he has demanded of you (besides "fix SF.net", which is impossible). > That's fine. Jack doesn't like a lot of people. Indeed. > But let it go, man. You said "He [Jack] is not doing anyone any > favors, it's all out of spite." So why bother with Jack, then? Forget > about him and let's move on. Jim, in all fairness, that doesn't work! I tried ignoring him for *months*, and he still came back, angrier and crazier than ever. So why do you suggest I do what I already tried and failed? It doesn't work! I'm trying a different strategy, trying to relay important technical details, in an attempt to debunk the myth that "Rugxulo is a FRAUD!" and the idea that I somehow was "miffed" as him, which isn't true. His "Mar-18" drivers just wouldn't even *boot* for me anymore, despite no config changes! It was a flat out regression, but my hope that his testers or he would find and fix that bug didn't pan out because he got unfairly angry. I left him alone to sulk, but that didn't work! He said he was giving up and going away, but that wasn't true! You're savvy, you know that in Gmail you can find all message "to:" and "from:" certain addresses. A quick check shows that I haven't privately emailed him (old or even new address) since that fateful "March 5" (2015) email where he explicitly said "I Give UP!" (just to get me to leave him alone, because he didn't want my workarounds for SF.net bug, because he claimed to be done with everything!). March 5th was a week or two before I said elsewhere, "I'm not sure if they work at all anymore". from Jack, to me (in reverse chronological order): Jan. 3, 2017 (new Earthlink email; re: HIMEMX and "Invalid opcode" in kernel, says he sent one user updated drivers) Jan. 14, 2016 (forwarded to me and others, claiming UIDE/XMGR as "tainted", to try to force us to remove them) May 16, 2015 (surprisingly email, half in response to SF.net bug tracker, very insulting for bogus reasons) March 12, 2015 (telling me to mirror 18-Mar-2015 drivers to iBiblio) March 5, 2015 (where he explicitly says "I Give UP!" on helping us) So yes, I did "drop" it, and I did leave him alone. I was not in contact with him, and I didn't insult him or egg him on (at least not directly, certainly he falsely sees every accidental criticism as a personal attack). So I stopped "bothering" him, at his request, in March 2015. And when he closed sources, I didn't know why, but I told SF.net bug tracker dude to close the bug since he didn't seem to care anymore. And even that he didn't read until a month later! But he found it and berated me heavily, blaming me. And I *ignored* him still! And yet he *still* came back on freedos-user (mid June) and was extremely antagonistic (insane, even) to me, which is where you (reluctantly) banned him in July (thank God!). So why are you surprised that I'm still talking about it? It never goes away. Silence doesn't work. I tried that, but it just didn't work. I know you're tired of hearing about it, but it's totally irrational to let his warped perception influence anyone. You're smart, you're a reasonable person. So why are you shutting down emotionally over this? Is it too stressful for you? Don't tell me I'm more patient than you are, I don't believe it. It's just not reasonable to ignore every problem, pretending that it will go away. Granted, incessant rambling doesn't help either, but I'm trying to be technically honest here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
