JTP, of course it will depend on what they tell us, but you're poking at the core of the risk. We all do know there's risk here, right? It's not like they're playing video games and monitoring and writing on message boards all day long - they are actually working hard to try to achieve something that many here believe will make them wealthy. Not easy.
Risk won't go away if POET should finally climb this mountain, there will be other risks (there always is), but at a minimum, it should validate some base value of the company well in excess of the current market cap.
By the way, the share price move today is no big surprise - sometimes it's just the cost of being up front.