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30/10/2005 12:20:55
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01062778
Message ID:
01063368
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35
>>>Although it may be the case that a modified version of Refox can even decompile level II+, it is my opinion that the company that sells Refox must be FORCED to distribute FOR FREE a version of their software that enables us to brand our applications in a way that makes it impossible for Refox to decompile it!!!
>>>
>>>Their product - as it is now - is UNETHICAL and ILLEGAL, because it enables THIEVES to STEAL our source code. Only by offering us the opportunity to download the free utility as mentioned above, they make their software LEGAL.
>>>
>>
>>You are shooting to the wrong target.
>>VFP has an ENCRYPT clause,
>>if this doesn't work
>>(it has a bug, because for definition every encryption system violated has a bug)
>>you have to shoot to the MS.
>>
>>A simple example,
>>if you purchase a safe with a too simple combination
>>and a firm sells a tool to open it,
>>with whom complain you?
>
>I'm shooting at exactly the right target! MS offers us encryption, the EULA forbids decompilation, Refox does ignore that part of the EULA, therefore Refox is ILLEGAL SOFTWARE!

You are wrong.

1) Refox does not decompile VFP itself, which is what the MS EULA covers.

2) MS do not offer encryption in VFP compiled apps. They offer encoding. There is a major difference.

3) Refox decompiles VFP p-code files to VFP source code. This is a tool that can be used for good or bad. Thats not really their problem. They offer a source code recovery tool.

4) Refox already contains a feature which will prevent it from decompiling a program which is "protected" by Refox itself - which is what you are asking for. But this feature can be circumvented by other decompilation tools and cracks.

5) Refox is certainly not illegal software. Possibly not very effective in protecting your app but that was not its original intention anyway.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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