I can't help it, this one struck me as quite funny, after all the
shared library discussions we've had on this list.

"A Stanford researcher, Philip Guo, has developed a tool called CDE to
automatically package up a Linux program and all its dependencies
(including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it can be run
out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of complicated
work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing with
dependency version hell. "

OK, so this is better than static linking how? Oh yeah you get the
fonts. And all the incompatible programs across distros.

So they've made the whole shared library mess so incredibly complex
that you now have to bundle a program's shared libraries with the
program!

Un-beeeeee-lievable.

The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems
not to apply in software nowadays.

ron