>>>>I see that it has a 'branding' option that's supposed to keep anyone from decompiling an .exe with ReFox, but will that keep someone from doing it with some other decompiler?
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>>I've heard this before.. I have yet to actually "see" one of these other decompilers do it.
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>>There were a few companies saying "we can decompile refox branded apps" I'd send them something & they couldn't do it, or didn't do it.
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>>Someone told me they could manually "break" refox's branding -- when I asked, he was rather vauge, when I offered to send him a sample, he stopped emailing.
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>>I'd be very interested in these other decompilers becuase I use refox all the time to brand my applications.
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>Any application can be reverse compiled. Even those to native machine code. You may not get back the original source...but you *can* get something.

To me, it's not obvious this is true for interpreted languages like VFP and Java. p-code is not machine code; although little or no effort has been put into making it hard to decompile/decrypt, there's no inherent reason why that can't be done.