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diff --git a/2015/bio.txt.bak b/2015/bio.txt.bak new file mode 100644 index 0000000..087372d --- /dev/null +++ b/2015/bio.txt.bak @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Harald Welte is a data communicatiosn freelancer, enthusiast and hacker +who is working with Free Software (and particularly GNU/Linux) +since 1995 His major code contribution to the Linux kernel was as a +core developer of 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. In 2010, he expanded those +efforts by creating OsmocomBB, a GSM teleophony-side baseband processor +firmware and protocol stack. Other projects include +OsmocomTETRA, a receive-only implementation of the ETSI TETRA radio +interface. + +Harald is co-founder of sysmocom - systems for mobile communications +GmbH, a company working on Free Software based products and solutions +for conventional and unconventional operators of mobile networks. |