> completely broken platform model Hardly. It works extremely well for Linux distribution maintainers, and for the FOSS projects that work with this model in

> completely broken platform model Hardly. It works extremely well for Linux distribution maintainers, and for the FOSS projects that work with this model in mind. Within the FOSS community, the platform model is excellent. It doesn't work so well for proprietary application developers, who should just be using static libs because of this.