> How does having strong support for dynamic linking prevent someone from copypasting insecure code or just linking statically with your .so? It doesn't. But i

> How does having strong support for dynamic linking prevent someone from copypasting insecure code or just linking statically with your .so? It doesn't. But it gives people a real alternative to doing what you describe! And only when a real alternative to something bad exists, one can reasonably demand that people stop doing the bad thing (Debian does, so does Fedora and a few other distros I believe).