VIA hires OSS sharp shooter
Posted by freesoftnews on Jul 25, 2008 in News • No comments
VIA Technologies today boosted its involvement in the open source community by appointing Harald Welte as its open source liason.
Welte was the 2007 recipient of the Free Software Foundation’s Award for the Advancement of Free Software. He also recently won the Defender of Rights award at the 2008 Open Source Awards.
Until 2007, Welte was chairman of the core team responsible for netfiler/iptables. He also founded gpl-violations.org, an organisation he set up to track down and prosecute violators of the GPL.