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From: gjc@bu-cs.BU.EDU (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: If the user does the link
Message-ID: <32893@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 89 14:51:32 GMT
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If an operating system implements sharable libraries, like VMS
has done for years, and like SUN is doing (modulo bugs) in
their release 4.0 then "the user does the link" legal problem
does not come up.

Even the lowly AMIGA has a sharable library construct. Perhaps
NeXT can manage to implement one too. You really need it badly
when you have large libraries, e.g. Xwindows.

-gjc