Though his company publishes some of the best Linux books out there, Tim O’Reilly says Apache, not Linux, is the battle ground for the open source revolution.
O’Reilly & Associates’ familiar zoo of helpful books have been our best friends during many a long hard night spent coding. But there is more to Tim O’Reilly than books alone - he has been a driving force behind the commercialization of free software.
It’s actually a pretty simple thing to get to O’Reilly & Associates headquarters from San Francisco. All you have to do is turn your car away from Silicon Valley and drive. It’s appropriate that a man who has made a name for himself identifying (and profiting from) trends just outside of the mainstream of the computer industry would choose to locate his company in the more out-of-the-way locale of Sebastopol, CA rather than in the heart of the Valley. Since he started producing Unix manuals in 1983, Tim O’Reilly has been on the cutting edge of the Internet and open source revolutions. In fact, his company started the Internet’s first Web portal (Global News Navigator), sold the first ad on the Web, produced the first commercial Web server, and helped organize the branding campaign for Open Source software. And O’Reilly publishes the Perl book with the camel on it. He recently invited Linux Magazine Publisher Adam Goodman and Executive Editor Robert McMillan for…
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