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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 2, 2012 18:41 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by jedidiah
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

This plan will fall apart because distributions remove old versions of libraries willy-nilly.

Sure, if you'll first create some stable ABI and will keep the set of libraries for that ABI around then it'll work… and this is what this thread is all about.

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