Bill Weinberg, Brad Templeton, Johannes Ernst

LinuxPundit, EFF, Netmesh

Open Telephony and Open Identity
48 minutes, 22mb, recorded 2006-01-25
Bill Weinberg, Brad Templeton, Johannes Ernst

Bill Weinberg of Linuxpundit.com presents his outlook on the current and future open phone. At the Open Source Development Labs, he helped accelerate the adoption of Linux across the enterprise, most recently in the mobile communications sector. He discusses the state of Linux and open technology in current products and some of the problems that mobile developers face.

Many developers, especially small start-ups, are being out-competed by the big name players in financial terms. Regulations, including the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, are major challenges for start-ups, because they lack armies of lawyers. In a humorous and sarcastic presentation, Brad Templeton of EFF considers the implications of government-mandated wiretapping.

While consumers are concerned about their privacy, they also struggle to keep their digital identities organized. Johannes Ernst of NetMesh explains projects that have sprung up to provide unified identification and authentication for all of our digital communication. LID, OpenID, and i-names are providing consumers with interoperable digital identities in a world where new methods of communication and collaboration are invented daily.


Bill Weinberg is an independent analyst and consultant at Linuxpundit.com. Previously, he worked as senior technology analyst and Mobile Linux/Carrier Grade Linux Initiative Manager at Open Source Development Labs.

Weinberg was a founding team-member of MontaVista Software and helped establish Linux as a favored platform for next-generation intelligent device development. In his extensive and varied career, he also worked at Lynx Real-Time Systems, Acer Computer, and Microtec Research.

Brad Templeton is the CEO of Caller App, a start-up that aims to reinvent the phone call, merging the visions of telephony, email, and presence. He is also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a longtime writer on cyberspace issues.

Templeton was founder and publisher at ClariNet Communications, an internet-based electronic newspaper publisher. ClariNet gathers information from a variety of sources, including major newswires such as UPI and AP.

Johannes Ernst is the founder and CEO of NetMesh, which pioneers "Situational Software." Previously, he was founder and CEO of Aviatis, a developer of collaborative engineering tools. He holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and worked for BMW Research and Engineering, FZI, and Integrated Systems. He became a technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2001.

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