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http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ ..comes to my mind. Shared libraries and their advantages

• dTal 12y ago
  That page is disappointingly light on actual arguments. Its points can be summed up thus: -Sun presented a paper saying it wasn't worth it -Plan9 doesn't use dynamic linking and some of its utilities have smaller binaries than similarly named utilities on FreeBSD -People like dynamic linking for the same reason they believe in god -Statically linked binaries aren't as portable as one would like. It reads like more of a rant to be honest.
• pyre 12y ago
  What about the benefit of being able to (e.g.) update OpenSSL across the board? Imagine if each application needed a HeartBleed update because every application had their own copy of OpenSSL. How would that be preferable?