On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:48:44PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > So why people tend to think that piping is ok, but using .so isn't ? > > There is a quality difference between piping and any sort of linking.
What is this subtle difference ? Oh, and remember shared memory, and other IPCs between linking and piping. > > Or using proprietary kernel is ok, proprietary .so isn't ? > > What do you mean with "using"? Calling functions that are not contained by your program. Is (asm:int) so different than (asm:call) for copyright purposes ?
