Tim Reilly

Tim Reilly
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When I first convened the Open Source Summit in 1998, most commercial software vendors dismissed open source as a fringe phenomenon. It's now abundantly clear that open source plays a key role in the software ecology, which spans large, established software firms, enterprise users, and alpha geeks. Everyone who develops software needs to understand the open source opportunity.
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People still like to meet face to face. That's how you glue together a community.
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That's the new fad this year, to not announce tuition until later.
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(Microsoft) clearly gets where the focus of the competition needs to be.
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Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core.
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I still think Yahoo has a heritage to overcome.
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Freshman year we traveled to Jamaica and had our heads turned around by that reggae rhythm. It was just after Bob Marley returned to his home country after the assassination attempt and self-exile; the country was exploding with reggae.
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Maybe my parents were concerned that radio and TV would bring in IRA propaganda music and rebel songs to our house.
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This will be our 12th consecutive year of enrollment growth.
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When people understand what Microsoft is up to, they're outraged. They need to respond to public, as well as legal, pressure on this.
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We knew we had a good team coming back, and that the district was going to be tough,
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It took me four months just to learn this one.
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It's back to 1995 where the Internet was this great rallying cry. One of the areas where Microsoft has a lead is that they are focusing on non-PC devices. That may be one of their secret weapons.
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It's back to 1995, where the Internet was this great rallying cry,