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Tim O'Reilly Interview

Posted by michael on from the talking-head dept.

s4 news machine writes "The UK webcaster stage4 has published a lengthy interview with Tim O'Reilly in which he talks about why DRM will fail, Macromedia Central and the rise of webservices, and that Microsoft should have been broken up."

5 of 366 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Do the goatse! by gordon1986 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that was so disgusting!!!
    you should go and kill yourself for making un-suspecting, high-bandwidth users experience that!!!

  2. Re:Do the goatse! by IWorkForMorons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You must be new to /., aren't you...

  3. Boromir? by epfreed · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith?!

    I know this has been covered, but Boromir (of Company of the Ring a.k.a The Nine Walkers fame) was the brother of Faramir, and the son of Denethor II. See here

    These was another fellow with the name Boromir from Gondor, but he was the son of Steward Denethor I. Neither Boromir's became king of Gondor--they were of the line of Stewards since the last of the kingly line was killed. See the The Encyclopedia of Arda

  4. The Reason For Song Swapping by thePancreas · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Have you been in a record store lately. Ugghhhh. All the R&B POP tween friendly boy band fluff is coming at you from every direction. The lack of taste in music has become so prevalent that no self respecting music lover would ever be caught dead in one "those stores" (the smaller ones got eaten up along time ago with the advent of the huge Box stores (Virgin, HMV, Sam, etc.)

    That and the Tweens can only buy so many carppy disks.

    --
    I went to battle MC Escher, but drew a blank
  5. could of used better grammar by tornater · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Best part:

    "What do you think should of happened to Microsoft? Are they a threat to the open standards nature of the web?

    I think it would have been great for Microsoft to have been broken up into an operating system company and an applications company. It would have ended up...."

    Incorrect usage of "of" instead of "have" in the question. O'Reilly's answer starts with an unusual number of "haves." Coincidence? Or subtle joke?