Tim O'Reilly at the MIX06 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada

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 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. He was also recently interviewed for Robert X. Cringely's vidcast NerdTV. Image File history File links Tim_O'Reilly. ... Image File history File links Tim_O'Reilly. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Entertainment Capital of the World Location Location of Las Vegas in Nevada Coordinates , Government County Clark Mayor Oscar B. Goodman Geographical characteristics Area     City 113. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 51. ... Programming Perl is a classic OReilly book. ... The GNU free software logo Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. ... Open source software refers to computer software available with its source code and under an open source license. ... Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, having been founded in 1636. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... This article is part of the Pipe Organ Refactor Project. ... CollabNet is a software and services company. ... Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software house. ... It has been suggested that Mudbrick be merged into this article or section. ... Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, the weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG. Stephens as Cringely Stephens was the third author to contribute to Infoworld under the Cringely pseudonym, the first two... Redirect page ... NerdTV is PBSs new tech TV show. ...

In 2001, Tim was involved in a dispute with Amazon.com, leading a protest against Amazon's one-click patent, and specifically, Amazon's offensive 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. Amazon. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and... A typical Barnes & Noble bookstore. ... Jeff Bezos on the cover of TIME as Person of the Year 1999 Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Tim's current passion is understanding just how open source is changing the computing landscape, leading to the commoditization of the software infrastructure (just as the PC commoditized the hardware infrastructure), and the creation of a new kind of value in what Tim has been calling Web 2.0, the internet as platform. He has coined the term architecture of participation to refer to the techniques and incentives that are common to successful initiatives that harness user contributions. The phrase architecture of participation describes the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution, such as open source and Wikipedia itself. ...

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External links

• tim.oreilly.com Tim's home page and archive
• radar.oreilly.com The O'Reilly Radar - 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?