OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

But I bet they violate LGPL. They have to supply it in a form
which the customer can modify for his own use.

Mike
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