When I said theft, I wasn't thinking of intellectual property. The phone belonged to Nokia, as they had not released or sold it. It was their physical property, and he had no right to it. What happened was little different from when a skank walks into a mobile phone store, sticks a phone in his pocket, and walks out without paying, then sells it on eBay. (although he was the receiver of the stolen goods). That is theft - open source is irrelevant. If I steal a PC with Linux on it, it is still stealing a computer, just as much as if it runs Windows.

The IP is another matter - but I am sure this could be adequately prosecuted without even getting into that, by prosecuting him just like any petty criminal who receives stolen goods. he has posted a video of himself handling property that belongs to somebody else. What a knob.

On the issue of 'deadlines', it was a hypothetical scenario, but reading through the lines here with what happened with the N8:

http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/n...-murtazin.html

If Nokia play this right, they could generate considerable free publicity for this phone at this guy's expense.

Mish.