Tue, 18 Sep 2007
QTopia first glance
I am making calls from and receiving calls to my Neo 1973. This is wonderful. I can do it thanks to the porting of QTopia to the FIC Neo 1973 platform! There was this press release as well as live, nude downloadable source and binaries as described in this mailing list thread.
Seth David Schoen brought up a good point: the press release mentions that they're Freeing their DRM implementation, too. That silenced my excitement until I could learn more.
Here's a meaningless (in a formal sense) personal testimonial from the developer who says he did most of the porting of QTopia to the Neo:
<paulproteus> ljp, I saw that the announcement said you guys were GPLing your DRM implementation. <paulproteus> Does the binary you gave out include that DRM software? <ljp> not DRM, but SXE <ljp> and the neo does not configured with SXE
SXE is an on-phone sandboxing system for untrusted software, and the Neo doesn't use it anyway. I feel safe enough that I can go to sleep, at least.
