OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:31, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > > In any case, no corporation is going to use anything which is GPL or
> > > LGPL and risk being taken to court.
> > 
> > They do use it, they just can't distribute it - not even if they
> > want to give it away.  Which means that the rest of us won't
> > ever have it.
> Wrong. You can dynamically link against LGPL'ed libraries and many
> closed source packages, comprising $$$ ones, do.

Yes, but RMS would prefer that the LGPL did not exist.

> Tiny, but popular example: RealPlayer (RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm)
> 
> ldd usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay.bin
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00869000)
>         libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x00e97000)

You'll note there's nothing like, say, libreadline in
there.

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