Dear Thor, Amazing how people claim being logical ... sure sign they aren't! > ... Irrespective of the method you choose to validate "bona-fide" > recipients of your PoC, you will have no control over what the > recipient chooses to do with it once they have it. As such, logic > dictates that your PoC be considered "public" the moment you release > it. ... Does logic dictate that all people are rabid pro-disclosure zealots, who do not respect copyright, IP rights, nor gentle personal requests for discretion? > ... don't fool yourself into thinking you are somehow being > responsible ... I do not own an over-inflated ego. > ... or simply send the code to Oracle and ask them ... Sorry to blow your assumption: sent to Oracle, ages ago, first thing. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia