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Tim O'Reilly
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Tim O'Reilly writes O'Reilly Media, a personal blog at tim.oreilly.com about business and economics. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Tim O'Reilly's essays on open source, startups, piracy and Mac OS X, cited as background for arguments. Commenters point to his "fishing with strawberries" and "Piracy is progressive taxation" pieces.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An archive of various articles Tim O'Reilly has written. Includes articles about O'Reilly Media's history, business model and values, editorial philosophy, platform economics and antitrust, the Next Economy, Open Source Software, Web 2.0 (big data and collective intelligence...
Most-linked posts?
- /pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-13
What Hacker News says?
For an old (but still largely relevant) laundry list of things on Mac that drive Linux fans nuts (and generally, back to Linux), there's a 2006 ORA DevCenter article by Chromatic, "Switching Back". Both the column and comments are still highly germane. http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/linux/2006/06/01/switching-back...
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on “Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.”Submitted Books That Have Shaped How I Think as a story · 8 points
HN discussionVery insightful. Reminds me of a talk I saw Tim O'Reilly give at OSCON back in the day, basically about this same concept. He described it as "moving up the stack", with each successive phase commoditizing the thing beneath it (hardware at the bottom, then software, then services). Here's a link to his writeup of the concept (although it's kind of dry -- I remember the presentation itself having more pictures and be…
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on “Open Source (Almost) Everything”Tim O'Reilly came up with a colorful way to describe the same concept back in 1995: "fishing with strawberries". He explained how he ignored the tired business school cliché about how you should bait your hook with worms, rather than things that you personally find tasty. http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/straw.html Money quote: " But that's just what we've always done: gone fishing with strawberries. We've made a bus…
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on “Organic Startup Ideas”I feel it is instructive that we remember Tim O'Reilly's incisive piece titled "Piracy is progressive taxation"[0]. It makes little sense to claim that an author/musician is losing money through piracy when the likelihood is that the [majority of the] pirated copies would not have otherwise been bought. Footnotes. [0] http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html
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on “Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate”> The role of piracy. I think we know. And the trends are negative, for both readers and authors. Except that the role of piracy is anything but clearcut. As Tim O'Reilly famously said in 2002 [1]: "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy." Again and again over the past several years, we have seen both studies and anecdotal stories from artists finding that file sharing produced…
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on “The downward spiral of ownership and value (happened to music, books are next)”I remember rms having a strongly different view from the one he expressed in this video. Google mostly turns up mentions of him speaking against cloud computing and such in the past few years; however, I did managed to find at least one instance in Tim O'Reilly quoting him from 1999[1]: "...a proprietary program on a web server that somebody else is running limits his freedom perhaps, but it doesn't limit your freed…
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on “Stallman on SaaS [video]”The OP reminds me of O'Reillys 2003 piece (buy where you shop) http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/buy_where_shop.html In his piece Tim OReilly warned against people who browsed at bookstores, but only shopped online. I suspect the same is true here.. if you use $service regularly, and $service exists through advertising, then maybe whitelisting their ads is a reasonable trade-off to make..
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on “Stop using AdBlock”
