Hi, On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > the wishes of the owners of the respective intellectual property have to be > respected.
Personal opinion does not invalidate the law, and a so-called license is only valid if it doesn't contradict the system enforcing it. Just because a disgruntled developer is angry (unfairly, I might add) doesn't give him the right to rescind pre-existing licenses or do whatever irrational thing he wants. Can he legally go "closed source" based upon a whim? Sure, but that's not what he did. He 100% directly blamed me for saying "the drivers don't work anymore" (which I have screenshots to prove is true for the Mar-18-2015 release, which is what he directly emailed me about, telling me to mirror for FreeDOS, even though that was after he'd already explicitly said he was "giving up on FleaDOS"). He even went so far as to try to pretend that his old releases were legally "tainted" so that Jim Hall would get scared and delete them. So the only reason we still have any old releases is due to stubbornness against him. If he had his way, we wouldn't even have that. He is VERY vengeful, and unfairly so. At this point I have (sadly, unproven) reason to suspect that "he" is not who he says "he" is. Either that or someone else is intercepting and pretending to be us. So I highly suspect that not all messages from "him" were really written by one person. But that's probably nothing new in such a hostile world. Anyways, if you want to be naive, just call it extreme emotional distress, mental illness, or similar. It's not rational behavior from a sane person. You cannot negotiate with such a person, they either can't or flat out refuse to understand. Some or all of his trivial personal details are probably bogus. Maybe I'm too cynical and suspicious at this point, but it makes no sense. For months he said he couldn't get on the mailing list, and then magically he reappeared. But all he did is blame me, insult heavily, and go closed source. Call *me* crazy, but freedos-user sounds like the complete opposite place to do that! So yeah, the whole technical "problem" that started this long ordeal was resolved but ignored in lieu of bigger (psychological) problems. Sigh. I don't want to bring all this up, but some people (even geniuses whom I respect, like Eric Auer) can't seem to let go. And that's another thing I don't understand, but I don't want to get into all of "that" either! Ugh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
