DOS ain't dead - re: Jack Ellis' bad attitude

re: Jack Ellis' bad attitude (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 05.10.2025, 00:46

> By the way, I used to chat frequently with Jack for over 15 years, from
> 2007 to 2022,

Jack's anger almost ruined this forum in 2007. Yes, I too was here interacting with him back then. Even then he was raging.

He was a former Jew (now Episcopalian since 1979?, thus his mother disowned him, and he was angry at his sister). Some of his relatives died in the Holocaust. So there stems his anger at Germany and German people (which should be irrelevant to all of us half his age).

> so I think that I knew him much better than Rugxulo with
> their "selective" memories did.

He carbon-copied that insulting email (May 16, 2015) to both you and Johnson Lam, subject: "Your 4-Apr-2015 Message to "Zangune" of SourceForge." So yes you do know his irrational behavior.

The irony is that I was shocked at his animosity, so I ignored it and never (until now) shared it with anyone. Don't say Jack was kind. He was psychotic.

We have many German contributors to FreeDOS: Robert, Andreas (Japheth), E. C. Masloch, (Bernd?) Boeckmann, Ralf Quint, Tom Ehlert, Willy / Fritz, Eric Auer, probably others.

You should know by now that he initially emailed me and Jim Hall directly to help him (2014), but neither of us worked for SourceForge, so there was nothing we could do to help him. They don't take policy advice from non-paying users like us. The Zangune guy at SF.net told him to upgrade to a newer (free) web browser, but Jack refused to try anything. The irony is that he still (somehow?) got back on the mailing list and was abusive to me, refused to stop, so he got banned.

Don't say he was kind. You have a copy of that email.

> Who in F***ING HELL are YOU -- Ad*lf H*TL*R
> And yes, I do call them "FleaDOS"

> does NOT require that I deal with anything as fractious as
> the current open-source "community", which I believe is as
> PATHETIC a bunch of N*ZIS as the real ones were!

> "S**g H**L!", mein Herr!
> Among the WORST total A**HOLES in history - H*tl*r might have been PROUD of them!!

All because he refused to stay subscribed to the mailing list or upgrade to a free web browser because he also refused to upgrade his OS. He wouldn't even create a secondary (free) email account just for FreeDOS either. There were solutions, workarounds, but he refused them all.

You don't think that's quite the overreaction from him?? Even on a technical level he was wrong (in my case). You think that's fair??

Please do not defend Jack. He had major anger problems, to say the least.

I can already guess that Robert wants to lock this thread.

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