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Tim O'Reilly sits down with Bill Hilf at OSCON2006 by MichaelF on July 28, 2006 10:09PM

While we were at OSCON this week we were fortunate enough to get some time to sit down with Tim O'Reilly.  I dare say Tim, author of the O'Reilly Radar, needs no introduction but just in case: Tim is an Open Source Software advocate as well as the Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc.  He is also one half of the duo that founded OSCON along with Matt Asay.  While this is his first time on Port 25, Tim also joined Bill Gates at Mix 06 for a conversation and Q&A session.

 In this interview Bill and Tim discuss the redefinition of "Open Source", Web 2.0, and some other topics that arose in the first two days of the conference.

Stay tuned:  Monday we will post another interview from the conference between Bill and Matt Asay wherein they discuss mixed environments and commercial OSS trends.  If you haven't already, sign up for our RSS feed and we'll notify you when this interview is published.


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  1. Eric Jarvi said:

    Interesting conversation with Tim O'Reilly&amp;nbsp;on Port 25&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;: &quot;as we build these new applications...

    posted at 07:03PM 07/28/2006
  2. Tom's corner said:

    posted at 01:55PM 08/01/2006
  3. Port 25 said:

    We just wrapped up the O'Reilly Executive Day here at OSCON after two days of what many would call record heat in the Pacific Northwest. With many of the Port 25 folks commuting from larger cities across the US, Portland is a welcome break. For those

    posted at 02:25PM 08/04/2006
  4. einhverfr said:

    I think Tim is sort of fuzzy on one point. Systems that get better the more people use them are not new. Indeed, theoretically, proprietary software, because of its economy of scale, ought to qualify-- the more people use the software, the more money can be reinvested in development. Of course, the limitation here is that the marketing department is not always the best way to tell developers what customers want. Instead, it is important to have developers/engineers directly engaged with customers and this is one of the things that open source has contributed in software and beyond. Best Wishes, Chris Travers Metatron Technology Consulting

    posted at 12:22PM 08/13/2006
  5. Port 25 said:

    I recently attended OSCON 2006, and had a lot of fun being there. Microsoft’s presence in the Open Source World is still a novelty (to say the least), so I always got a reaction out of people at the conference when they saw my badge!

    posted at 04:47PM 08/14/2006
  6. Cay said:

    Great comment from Tim on mixed environments

    posted at 04:38PM 08/23/2006
  7. Port 25 said:

    It&rsquo;s been an interesting nine months on Port 25. For those keeping track, the endeavors of our

    posted at 03:50PM 12/13/2006
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