Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:45:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@trout.mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RMS's view on dynamic linking Message-ID: <199702220045.RAA02272@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199702212325.QAA06245@trout.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 21, 97 04:25:27 pm
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> According to rms, with whom I just corresponded about this issue, > that's not so. > > His view is that linking two programs is not "mere aggregation", > regardless or whether it's static or dynamic linking. I think that loading an application into a virtual address space is "linking" the application with the OS. RMS's drawing the line at the "where do you want to link today?" level has never made sense to me... but I'm merely an engineer, not a political scientist. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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