On 2 Feb 2012, at 22:53, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
In the day of sub-hundred dollar terabyte drives, you're kidding me, right?
Also, ever lost libc.so on a Solaris box?
This is missing the point. A system with shared libraries can deliver a fix to a bug in a
library by a new version of that library, instead of a new version of every program which
is statically linked against that library.