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YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 03.10.2025, 09:28
(edited by Rugxulo on 03.10.2025, 09:40)

> > Sad to read this, btw how old was he?
> > I mailed with him last 31.5.2018 to xe***@earthlink.net
>
> As long as I am not absolutely certain of his demise I don't allow myself
> to answer that question, but it's about a fairly advanced age.

IIRC, he was almost 70 in 2015, so he would be roughly 80 now.
But I also remember that he was born after WW2 (which he never stops talking about).

With all due respect, he was a very obsessive and extremely angry person. In particular, his anger over the war shouldn't have carried over to 2007 here on BTTR, much less 2015 (yes, his private email insulting me, which I ignored, was all WW2-related insults). People half his age aren't interested in his old grudges. I don't think I ever shared that email. Granted, it wasn't that bad, just the typical jerk calling someone N*zi and H*tl*r. (I'm not even German, sheesh.) Pure looney tune nonsense, so I just ignored it since he'd already "given up". So his getting back on the mailing list just to brag about going closed source (and directly blaming me) was beyond irrational.

He was impossible to deal with, directly emailing me and Jim to help him get back on the SF.net mailing lists, but he refused even what the Bug Ticket guy told him to do. He was constantly unsubscribing to avoid "dealing with fools" but also refused to let anyone else announce for him. There was nothing I could do, though I tried giving workarounds. And he had way too many revisions of his "drivers", so the whole blasted WIP version didn't even boot for me anymore. I even told him that (later), but he still seemed to misunderstand. Even screenshots taken later to prove that fact didn't fully alleviate his animosity. The partial bug fixes to the "old" open source drivers was meager, and his going closed source a third time was just validation to me that he isn't worth wasting time on. He used to have version checks against even working on FreeDOS, so I don't know why anybody would trust or even want to waste time on his "new" drivers. If he hasn't stabilized by now, he's never going to.

Seriously, I'm no GPL zealot. While I prefer open source personally, I never waged any kind of license wars. But the GPL does (mostly) prevent vindictive and dishonest people like this from hijacking projects due to irrational hatred.

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