"O’Reilly has always been a privately held, self-funded company, and it’s a distinction we wear with pride. We don’t have any investors but our customers, who fund us by buying our products and services. That keeps us attuned to what the market is really telling us...The formats may change, but the mission stays the same." Read the whole post from O'Reilly's president at http://oreil.ly/2t9RnXP
In his blog today,(http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1395)Tim says more about his WWDC keynote, including:
Hackers push the envelope to make technologies do what they want before vendors and entrepreneurs package them for other people. My point is that a lot of the things that the hackers and other alpha geeks have been incorporating into their lifestyle for some time - wireless, chat, web services (even if only created by web spidering and screen scraping), peer-to-peer (rendezvous), etc. - are all starting to show up in a nice package with OS X.
So to me, this is a good predictor that Apple is really on the right track with some big trends.
Tim O'Reilly talks about this issue in an Ask Tim column from November 99 (http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/gpl_problem.html). Here's a piece of it:
...many of the leading applications of today aren't distributed at all. They are host-based services. Consider amazon or e-trade or any other e-commerce application. Or maps.yahoo.com and other map and direction servers. For that matter, consider altavista and other search engines. These are the applications that are bringing new functionality to computers.
These applications can be built on top of open-source software with no obligation for the developers to give their improvements back to the Open Source community.
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"O’Reilly has always been a privately held, self-funded company, and it’s a distinction we wear with pride. We don’t have any investors but our customers, who fund us by buying our products and services. That keeps us attuned to what the market is really telling us...The formats may change, but the mission stays the same." Read the whole post from O'Reilly's president at http://oreil.ly/2t9RnXP
In his blog today,(http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1395)Tim says more about his WWDC keynote, including:
Hackers push the envelope to make technologies do what they want before vendors and entrepreneurs package them for other people. My point is that a lot of the things that the hackers and other alpha geeks have been incorporating into their lifestyle for some time - wireless, chat, web services (even if only created by web spidering and screen scraping), peer-to-peer (rendezvous), etc. - are all starting to show up in a nice package with OS X.
So to me, this is a good predictor that Apple is really on the right track with some big trends.
His letter to the Authors' Guild is at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1291
Tim O'Reilly talks about this issue in an Ask Tim column from November 99 (http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/gpl_problem.html). Here's a piece of it:
...many of the leading applications of today aren't distributed at all. They are host-based services. Consider amazon or e-trade or any other e-commerce application. Or maps.yahoo.com and other map and direction servers. For that matter, consider altavista and other search engines. These are the applications that are bringing new functionality to computers.
These applications can be built on top of open-source software with no obligation for the developers to give their improvements back to the Open Source community.