Fair enough, I don't know that I really care that much, more than just being relatively new to the BB scene and having curiosity over what all the fuss is about. It would appear this Ronen cat, and I know about his site, is a bit of a loose cannon in the community and is putting himself at legal risk, but I just wondered why everyone was so upset about it. Being a libertarian at heart, I tend to let people who seemed to determined to do so(after being warned of the risks of course), deal with their own messes. This would include someone like Ronen or anyone who installs BETA software and screws it up. This doesn't mean I'm heartless, I might lend some help, but I'm not gonna get all jacked up and steaming mad over someone's BB maps not working right on a BETA version of 4.5. They took the risk after being warned. I'll even admit that I took that risk, mainly because I love to tinker with software and generally wanted some of the features now. The difference is that I read and understood the risks and took the time to read ahead to find a way to get myself back to 4.2 if I screwed it up. I have switched back and forth a couple of times and am now back on 4.5 sans BB maps which I don't use anyway. Sith Apprentice has good points in his response, but I do take umbrage to the people at RIM losing their jobs because of OS leaks. If you take a job at RIM, and you agree to their confidentiality agreements, and then you leak their OS, I think you probably deserve it when they fire you.

I do find it interesting though that in reading through the usuall install warnings, legals, and agreements on the 4.5 stuff that I have yet to see a reference to it being beta software. Usually you see that somewhere on beta stuff.