It was bound to happen eventually. Some smart folks over at Phoronix Forums have hacked Splashtop. Well, it’s about time…

The fact that folks want to hack Splashtop is exciting and we want to be as supportive as possible. Just because something has been “hacked” doesn’t mean it’s less safe. We want to encourage folks to explore our product and help us to make it better.

We’ve been working hard trying to get Splashtop onto as many machines as possible over the last few months through proliferation programs. The development community has been promised an SDK from us for a while. We’re very glad to see some talented developers take matters into their own hands.

In fact, we’re inspired here at Splashtop HQ and will work to get the SDK out quickly. We have an early beta version ready now and will start working with selected developers to refine and deliver a polished version. Please e-mail us at developer@splashtop.com if you’re interested in helping out with the effort…and thanks to all of you for pulling us forward!

If you’re interested in some of the coverage on the Splashtop Jailbreak, here you go:

Phoronix
Engadget
Gizmodo

Last night our source code went live. You can find it here. In case you are wondering it can also be accessed by the developer link which can be found at the bottom of the homepage. Admittedly, the developer portion of our site is too buried and we’re going to be launching a full developers area with a complete SDK soon. Phoronix already covered our source code release and can give you great details on what we release vs. what we didn’t release (yet). If you’re a developer, you know that properly packaging source code and offering a complete SDK is important. We’re working hard on getting that done and up as we’re very interested in building a healthy, flourishing developer community.

Just to review, at the bottom of the developers page you’ll see a link to download the source code. It’ll open up a form to fill out a bit of info (we promise not to spam you). It’s not a huge download (~12MB). Again, I am told to caution all developers. We really wanted to get something out soon for those who were really excited to dig into Splashtop. A more full featured release complete with SDK will come soon. If you can wait, we suggest it. Thanks for your continued interest in Splashtop!

Great news for developers interested in Splashtop. I just got out of a very cool (albeit technical) meeting where I was told that a code release on our website is imminent. This is exciting for anyone who is interested in using the Splashtop code for any purpose. However, I was told to caution anyone downloading this code that it is an initial release. A more complete SDK will follow it soon whereby developers can really play with the Splashtop environment. This will be very exciting for Splashtop! More soon…