Tim O'Reilly

Infobox Person
name = Tim O'Reilly


caption =
birth_date = 1954
birth_place = Cork, Ireland
occupation = Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
website = http://tim.oreilly.com

Tim O'Reilly ( _ga. Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is widely credited with coining the term Web 2.0.

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. He 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." O'Reilly is on the board of CollabNet, and was on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe. In March 2007, he joined MySQL AB’s Board of Directors.

In 2001, O'Reilly was involved in a dispute with Amazon.com, [http://tim.oreilly.com/patents/index.csp leading a protest] against Amazon's one-click patent, and specifically, Amazon's assertion of that patent against rival barnesandnoble.com. The protest ended with O'Reilly and Jeff Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform.

In December 2006, O'Reilly's publishing firm donated $10,000 to Creative Commons, demonstrating his interest in the Free Culture movement.

ee also

*Infoware
*Web 2.0
*O'Reilly Media
*"Make"
*Foo Camp

External links

* [http://tim.oreilly.com tim.oreilly.com] O'Reilly's home page and archive
*" [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oreilly10-2008oct10,0,3371018.story Tech guru Tim O'Reilly challenges next generation to get serious] " - "Los Angeles Times"
* [http://www.wfs.org/May-June%20files/futurist_interview_tim_oreilly.htm FUTURIST magazine interview with O'Reilly,] Re: Future of Publishing
* [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail197.html Watching the Alpha Geeks] Audio of O'Reilly's 2002 talk at SDForum
* [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail50.html The Software Paradigm Shift] Audio of O'Reilly's 2003 interview with IT Conversations
* [http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/#5 NerdTV Interview] (video, audio, and transcript available) - 29 September 2005
* [http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/44559 Tim O'Reilly interview - O'Reilly on Linux] PC Pro interview covering Linux, Java and books
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly.html - The Trend Spotter] Wired Magazine profile - October 2005, "Tim O'Reilly built an empire on computer manuals and conferences that make sense of new technologies. Along the way he became the guru of the participation age."
* [http://uk.intruders.tv/Web-2-0-Expo-Berlin-Fireside-chat-with-Tim-O-Reilly_a242.html Tim O'Reilly on social media] video, November 2007
* [http://twitter.com/timoreilly Tim on Twitter]