Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Funny that you bring this up in a news post that's dealing with "python2/3" vs. "python" command name. What do you hope to gain by shelling out to openssl instead of dynamically linking? The binary still has an interface that may or may not change in incompatible ways. At least for dynamic libraries there's support for versioning. As the article demonstrates, there is no such thing for system commands.