Thanks for the explanation. So it sounds like the critical thing that Windows resources have over the thing I outlined is that they and their namespaces are re

Thanks for the explanation. So it sounds like the critical thing that Windows resources have over the thing I outlined is that they and their namespaces are relatively transparent to external tools such as the Program Manager. The critical thing is that MS could impose a standard. Anyone can write tools to put such a section to their ELF binaries. But it would be useless because then no one would know to read it.