“He set up a picnic table at a trade show and went home with a
wad of bills the size of a roll of toilet paper. That was Tim
O’Reilly’s initiation, 20 years ago, to the mysteries of
open-source software.”
“Today, he is sole proprietor of a $35 million-a-year publishing
empire.”
“In a 31-page essay last month he turned his spotlight on the
greatest threat to Microsoft’s dominion.”