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+Harald Welte is a freelancer, consultant, enthusiast, freedom fighter and
+hcaker 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 companiess
+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.
+
+Harald is currently working as "Open Source Liaison" for the Taiwanese CPU,
+chipset and peripheral design house VIA, helping them to understand how to
+attain the best possible Free Software support for their components.
+
+He continues to operate his consulting business hmw-consulting.