Hi Jos,

We may have drawn different conclusions/opinions from the thread. But still, even if the situation is that today the decompiling software is available, it is not shelfware. With .net I expect that a decompiler will be a very common tool after a while, and that is a very scary thought.

By the way, please also read my other replies.

>Tore. Thats not why I thought the thread was interesting. It's interesting as a real life drama, or dual, between two obviously extremely smart programmers.
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>iro decompile .Net apps - do you honestly believe your VFP app is safe from decompilation??
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>Either way, I dont think .Net's (or indeed any dev tools) future is dependent on whether a tiny minority of expert code crackers/hackers can decompile the end result exe. VFP has been around for years and years with nothing more than pseudo code as its protection. Even today the protection tools are not full-proof. Do you think the likes of those two programmers in the Thinstall thread could not decompile a "protected" VFP app within a few minutes?
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>>Hi Jos,
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>>Yes, very interesting reading, in deed. This should be read by all the .net promoters. If this is true, and I have no reason to believe it is not, I see absolutely NO FUTURE FOR .NET !! Who wants to give away their source code?
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>>>>Something interesting regarding this
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>>>>http://thinstall.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=128&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=8dff53c5a58fa79affd66603d780eb47
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>>>>>.NET can also be decompiled.
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>>>Hi Dorin. Very interesting. Anyone reading this thread should definitely take the time to read this link. Thanks Dorin.