One reason we don't ship static files is that they allow third party programs to harbor bad code. For example, lets say we fix a security issue in libssl, after it is redistributed in dynamic form and the system is rebooted we know all applications are using fixed version. If WOS shipped the static library (.a) files we could not be sure that all programs on customer system had been relinked to the latest version.
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