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Tim O'Reilly
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- For the musician, see Tim O'Reilly (musician).
Tim O'Reilly (born 1954, Cork, Ireland) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and supporter of the free software and open source movements.
O'Reilly was initially interested in literature upon graduating from high school, but after graduating from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in Classics he became involved in the field of computer manuals. Tim defines his company not as a book or online publisher, or as a conference producer (though the company does all three), but as a technology transfer company, "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators." Tim is on the board of CollabNet, and was on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe. In March 2007, Tim joined MySQL AB’s Board of Directors
In 2001, Tim was involved in a dispute with Amazon.com, leading a protest against Amazon's one-click patent, and specifically, Amazon's use of that patent against rival barnesandnoble.com. The protest ended with Tim and Jeff Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform. Amazon has continued to file many patents, and the Barnes & Noble case was settled. As of 2006, Amazon has not repeated the events by suing for patent infringement.
In December 2006, O'Reilly's publishing firm donated $10,000 to Creative Commons, demonstrating his interest in the Free Culture movement.
- tim.oreilly.com Tim's home page and archive
- Tim's blog
- Tim's bio on oreilly.com
- Watching the Alpha Geeks Audio of Tim's 2002 talk at SDForum
- The Software Paradigm Shift Audio of Tim's 2003 interview with IT Conversations
- NerdTV Interview (video, audio, and transcript available) - 29 September 2005
- Wired report on Tim O'Reilly
- Tim's article The Open Source Paradigm Shift
- Tim's article What is Web 2.0?
- Tim O'Reilly interview - O'Reilly on Linux PC Pro interview covering Linux, Java and books
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