A visible case against bundled libraries
I wrote a lot about bundled libraries and why they are bad, but I usually stick with speaking about Free Software (or Open Source Software — yeah they are two different sets!). This time, let me explain you how they are bad for proprietary, binary-provided software as well.
I finally decided to give a try to Dropbox after hearing so much good about it. The first step of the set-up process is…
downloading the “proprietary daemon”, which turns out to include a number of otherwise Free Software, including, but not limited to, a number of Python extensions (and of course, a whole copy of the Python interpreter… they don’t even as far as trying to hide it, as all the symbols are visible in the ELF file!), Zlib 1.2.3 and a couple of D-Bus related libraries. Okay nasty, but let’s leave at that for now...
So I ignored for now the fact that it installs a proprietary package without being allowed
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