> Nobody is distributing that library anymore. There exist plenty of archives of old Linux distributions. "Nobody" turns out to be quite a lot of people/server

> Nobody is distributing that library anymore. There exist plenty of archives of old Linux distributions. "Nobody" turns out to be quite a lot of people/servers. > Whereas an equivalently aged binary on Windows will load today without extra dependencies. I wouldn't go so far. The 64-bit port of Windows dropped support for all 16-bit applications, whereas they still run flawlessly through Wine.