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“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.”
“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 a tour of his Sebastopol offices and a chat about the
evolving open source industry.”
“Linux Magazine: How did you first get into
Unix?
Tim O’Reilly: At the very beginning I was a
contract tech writer. The first book that I developed on my own was
actually an early version of Unix in a Nutshell. I was working
at a company called MassCom that’s now long gone.”
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