Re: OT: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

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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.

[snip]

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