On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:54:12 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> You can't do that (by definition) with closed-source software.
> 
> That's not really true. There are plenty of ways of fixing software
> without the source. They're a PITA, yes, but it can be done.

Not really saying it's impossible, but you have to really know how the 
software works in order to write a binary-only patch.  But sure, hackers 
have been doing that for years to remove copy protection from games (for 
example).

But many programmers don't even know how to do that.

Jim

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