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>>>You want to outlaw Refox. This is not true! Read my original post and all my replies again and you have to (or better, you should) conclude that I want the makers of Refox to come with a free utility that we can use to make our apps insensitive to decompilation with Refox. That's all. Tell me what's wrong with that idea?
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>>Well since you now want to focus on just this one point...
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>>1) You said that Refox is illegal software hence my comment about you wanting to outlaw it. To be illegal I assume you wish it to be removed and stopped.
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>>2) Whats wrong with your suggestion is that (a) you are trying to solve the wrong problem, (b) there will always be another Refox, (c) there will be a way around whatever gimmick Refox give you, (d) why should they give you anything, they provide a useful product for those situations where code is lost.
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>>The problem is crackers, the tool users. Not the tool.
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>Okay, let me be clear here. As long as that such a free utility does not exist, Refox is illegal software from my point of view. Reason is that they introduce a problem to the developers that can now only be solved by spending money on their product. And it is terribly easy for them to prevent this kind of problem by publishing the free utility.
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>Your a) is not an argument. Your b) can be tackled by also demanding such a free utility from those other toolmakers. Your c) may be true, but it is not the responsibility of the makers of Refox, and it can also not be a valid reason for them not to provide the free utility. Your d), well ... they gave me the problem for free, so let them also give me the solution for free.


My (a) is a valid argument becuase you want to solve the tool problem whereas I suggest you solve the cracker problem.

iro (b) - I am sure the crackers are waiting for your request to cease and desist.

(c) is true because compiled VFP apps even with encoding are inherently insecure.

(d) they did not give you a problem. If you think like this then you should complain to MS for producing a tool in which source code protection is insufficient. btw .Net is just as exposed as VFP, in case any one cares to know, and there are decompilers and protections for that platform as well.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.