totalueberwachung

Today someone on the openezx channel reminded me of a linux phone I had almost forgotten about. I first saw the ImCoSys smartphone at the CeBit and after talking to the representative I had the impression that they were not very open source friendly. After I asked him about their modifications to GPL'd software he replied that they were keeping GPL contributions at a minimum and developing most of the software on their own.

Since the phone is on the market now I decided to send them a mail and request the source code that is under the GPL. The first pleasant surprise was that they answered my question and they did it fast. I sent my mail at 1:15 (am) and I had an answer at 1:28.

According to that mail the source code will be distributed with the phone on a CD/DVD.

I will have to get one of these phones and see for myself. With things like bluetooth, wifi and GPS it does have a pretty high hack value.