OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:22 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:36, Mike McCarty 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.

Are you two arguing at cross-purposes? Les is not arguing that
it is physically impossible to do the link.

> 
> Tiny, but popular example: RealPlayer (RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm)

Well, you have an example of a violation of the license, then.

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Mike
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