diff options
Diffstat (limited to '2010/osmocombb-linuxkongress2010/bio.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | 2010/osmocombb-linuxkongress2010/bio.txt | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/2010/osmocombb-linuxkongress2010/bio.txt b/2010/osmocombb-linuxkongress2010/bio.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4168a1b --- /dev/null +++ b/2010/osmocombb-linuxkongress2010/bio.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Harald Welte is a freelancer, consultant, enthusiast, freedom fighter and +hacker who is working with Free Software (and particularly the Linux kernel) +since 1995. His first major code contribution to the kernel was within the +netfilter/iptables packet filter. + +He has started a number of other Free Software and Free Hardware projects, +mainly related to RFID such as librfid, OpenMRTD, OpenBeacon, OpenPCD, +OpenPICC. During 2006 and 2007 Harald became the co-founder of OpenMoko, where +he served as Lead System Architect for the worlds first 100% Open Free Software +based mobile phone. + +Aside from his technical contributions, Harald has been pioneering the legal +enforcement of the GNU GPL license as part of his gpl-violations.org project. +More than 150 inappropriate use of GPL licensed code by commercial companies +have been resolved as part of this effort, both in court and out of court. He +has received the 2007 "FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and the +"2008 Google/O'Reilly Open Source award: Defender of Rights". + +In 2008, Harald started to work on Free Software on the GSM protocol side, both +for passive sniffing and protocol analysis, as well as an actual network-side +GSM stack implementation called OpenBSC. He is currently in the early design +phase for the hardware and software design of a Free Software based GSM +baseband side. + +He continues to operate his consulting business hmw-consulting. |