[..] because you are stupid enough to allow Hyperion to exploit you. [..] I believe that if a private business wants you to do something to make them money then they should pay you to do it.
And that grants you the right to call him stupid? What do you exactly mean by that anyway, that he is not intelligent or that he does lack common sense?
Personlally, I don't think he lacks any.
If he likes to code and wants to use his skills to improve something why would would we, or you in this case, arrogate to personally attack him?
Even more so, as per your own words this OS is completely unimportant.
I would love to see my suggestions implemented, because, probably like him too, there is something in us (us a general term) that likes perfection. And maybe that is what he is trying to work towards to. To take this old OS to a state where it is--without altering or taking it too far from what it is--as bugfree and perfect as possible.
His ideas might very well be different than mine or yours, that does not make it right to show inapropriate behaviour towards him.
Like others said already, if it is so important to you, learn the skills do what he had to do and try to join the development team.
Or next time when that anger boils up in you, just remember yourself
The OS isn't a homeless person needing help or any other kind of charity case, it's just old computer stuff. Nobody is stuck in a coma since CBM died, needing new OS version to wake them up. Rather it's the opposite of that, completely unimportant.