You don't really disagree with us, you disagree with our employers and their lawyers (the true enemy of innovation). I work for a raving paranoiac. Our current corporate policy requires flatulence to be run by the legal dept. prior to expulsion. When I was hired I held up starting the job until I got certain concessions on an intellectual property agreement I was required to sign. There is nothing new under the sun in the programming world but there is always greed. It seems as though employers want to benefit as much as possible from their technical employees creativity in and out of the workplace. I keep a journal with time and date stamped entries documenting what I did where and for what. I do this to prevent anything I develop on my own time from being challenged by my employer. What I do on my own time is (as far as I am concertned) Open Source. But to be fair to my employer I abide by his rules when I am in his building. Once I leave the office I am a free ( speech, not beer :-) )agent. "Licenses.....We don't neeed no steeeekin' licenses....