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How can anyone reliably patch Windows without the source code? And, is this legal?
by nextaccountic 2y ago
How can anyone reliably patch Windows without the source code? And, is this legal?
- lmz 2y agoIt's not like this is Linux where every man and his dog can compile a version with custom flags. There are only so many actual binaries out there. Not a lawyer so can't comment on legality.
- kevincox 2y agoHard work and reverse engineering I would guess. The also make it sound like they also patch some non-windows software. I'm curious what the quality of these are. It seems fairly easy (if expensive) to binary patch most code most of the time but I would have to expect that there is a non-trivial rate of crashes or incomplete fixes with this approach. But maybe better than nothing?