As I (not a lawyer) understand it, the spectrum here is tight/loose binding on a conceptual level, rather than the specific technology used to achieve it.
The static/dynamic linking concern seems like a red herring, as it reflects a specific technological instance of such a distinction, but in architectures that do linking differently than traditional Unix systems, it makes less and less sense.
The static/dynamic linking concern seems like a red herring, as it reflects a specific technological instance of such a distinction, but in architectures that do linking differently than traditional Unix systems, it makes less and less sense.