Sales

Information About Sales

It's hard for some people to come to terms with the notion of selling a service rather than a product. We do not sell a piece of software outright like most companies, because there isn't a big enough market to allow the people who pirate the software, to be massively outranked by those who are willing to pay. Further, people seem to think of decompilers as the kind of software you can grab off Kazaa, use once, and then dispose of it.

Unfortunately, we've spent 2 years on this decompiler technology, and all that effort has to be paid for.

With that lecture over, if you have a program you want us to decompile, bear the following in mind:

If your program is a VB program, there is a flat rate depending on how much code there is to decompile, plus an hourly rate of $30 to implement all the things that are currently unimplemented, such as:
- VB6 API functions (of which we have figured out 300 of perhaps 400)
- Unusual flow control (such as jumps that lead nowhere)
- Odd goto statements (which we have actually completely figured out an algorithm for now, no thanks to the people who use them to jump out of loops)
These problems are all fixable. By fix, we mean that we actually figure out the problem, work out how to let the decompiler anticipate that problem in future, and then all occurrences of the problem are gone in yours and future programs. We do not hand-edit the output code.
For VB programs, we may ask you to supply the COM/OCX/ActiveX libraries that your program used, so that we can 'dump' all the data within them. We do not decompile the library itself, but access it via the COM interface for its prototype data. If we cannot determine which library the program used, we will send you an application to figure out which library it is by searching your registry. Please do NOT get annoyed at this, we are just doing our job of decompiling your program, and this is the only way of finding out what library it is.
For C or C++ programs, we hope to have no extra fees, because C is a 'complete' language. There are no API functions determining how the code executes. In fact, Visual Basic has turned out to be a black hole sucking up all our time, so we prefer to work with C/C++ now.
Again, for C/C++ programs we will ask you to supply the libraries (.lib and .dll) along with their header files. This is essential, and again we don't decompile these libraries, but parse them for data.

If you want to submit your executable, please email it to detech@decompiler.org with the subject line beginning "Executable for Decompilation". If you are submitting a checksum, always please have the subject as "Detech: AntiVBRB". Please don't confuse the submission of an executable, with submission of the checksum. Consider that if we could compress a 1mb executable into a 4kb checksum file, we wouldn't be selling decompilers, we would be selling data compression.