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RE: making static linkage useful (oh the horror!)
- From: "Erik Poupaert" <erik dot poupaert at chello dot be>
- To: "Adam Megacz" <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>
- Cc: <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:27:59 +0100
- Subject: RE: making static linkage useful (oh the horror!)
>>>> Making static linkage hard to use or bloated does
>>>> force people to distribute these libraries.
... a tactic which made them run away from the JRE in the first place. And
the winner is ... Microsoft, because they will build the dot.net
framework -- "our right to innovate" -- into the OS, putting an end to all
competition on Windows. And since dot.net applications will have their
difficulties running on anything but a sanctioned Microsoft framework, we
will be back to square one.
Fast and small executables. The faster and the smaller, the better.