OT: Next Time you sing happy birthday

[James Knott]

Ian Petersen wrote:
> On 8/14/07, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> JoeHill wrote:
>>     
>>> Empires do not require an enemy to become pretty much ignored and ineffective.
>>> They do it to themselves every time. Beautiful thing to watch.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
>>     
>
> The general "feel" of that article is nice, but the details in it are
> rather questionable.  From the article:
>
> "[In a Linux-based OS there is] no such thing as a DLL, which Crawford
> described as the second most evil thing in Windows behind ActiveX."
>
> Doesn't an .so serve the same purpose as a DLL?  I don't know much
> about DLLs, so there could be subtle differences in purpose that I'm
> unaware of, but I though DLL stood for "dynamic link library", or
> something similar, and is therefor basically the same as an .so
> (shared object, right?).
>
>   

In Windows, DLL's are often changed with the installation of an application.

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