“There may be places where Tim O’Reilly requires an
introduction, but this isn’t one of them. With a superlative
publishing catalogue and a series of history-making conferences to
his credit (and more to come), he and the rest of the team at
O’Reilly & Associates have earned the good will of hackers of
all stripes, from junior webmonkeys to Perl gurus. We were
consequently delighted when Tim said he’d take part in a Q&A
for sendmail.net.”
“O’Reilly & Associates is going in with VA Linux and SGI to
offer a support and documentation package for Debian Linux, and
making the O’Reilly book on Debian available under the OPL. How
much does the fact of Debian’s “pure” Open Source distro figure
into your decision to collaborate with them? What do you hope to
achieve?”
“At bottom, this project was at VA’s initiative, and they should
get most of the credit for it. And one of our primary interests was
in partnering with VA, which has done such a great job of
supporting the ideals of the Linux community. However, I do also
support the goal of the project, which is to make sure that the
Debian project gets more visibility in what is shaping up to be the
Linux distro wars…”