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25 Years of O'Reilly Books

Posted by chrisd on from the from-x-to-perl-to-nursing dept.

wka writes "The year 2003 marks the 25th anniversary of publisher O'Reilly and Associates. O'Reilly has a site to mark the event. Readers can learn about the origin of the first animal covers in the time line, and read an anniversary message from Tim O'Reilly, stating his 'audacious' goal '[t]o change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators.'"

2 of 146 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The Perl book is the most memorable... by MisterFancypants · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah it isn't every day you get to talk to a convicted felon online.

  2. Is It Just Me? by occamboy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think that the folks at O'Reilly should thank the creator that:

    1. Documentation for unices and open source stuff sucks so unbelievably (except PostgreSQL)

    2. Most authors of computer books are not substantially better writers than the folks who document unices and open source stuff.

    Frankly, I find the O'Reilly books to be generally bland and mediocre, with a handful of particularly good and bad titles.

    However: in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king and thus, I suppose, even I'm thankful for O'Reilly. But I really wish that a truly good publisher of computer books would come along! Boy does the Unix/Open Source movement need this!