Since I summed up Esther, I suppose I should sum up Tim.
Tim is a bon vivant who runs various salons (FOOCamp) and conferences. He has occasionally said some profound or even downright smart things, and is generally jovial and quite generous.
He can afford to do this because of the money his company manages to generate from vending bits of information printed on dead trees, or even not printed on dead trees. Somehow, this business continues to profit even when the books are available for free on bittorrent, or even officially available for free online ("Open Source").
This continued money stream is certainly a big reason he's so jovial and generous, but he's also a genuinely nice guy, humble, no doubt because he remembers that he built his company selling UNIX man pages with public-domain engravings of funny animals on the covers.
without knowing whether he pronounces it "two dot zero" or "two point oh."
After suggesting it dismissively in AEU yesterday, I'm starting to think we really should name this decade the two-point-ohs, after the penchant for believing we're reinventing the whole world anew right now.
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Date: 2009-03-05 05:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-03-05 05:51 am (UTC)Interestingly
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Date: 2009-03-05 07:32 am (UTC)Tim is a bon vivant who runs various salons (FOOCamp) and conferences. He has occasionally said some profound or even downright smart things, and is generally jovial and quite generous.
He can afford to do this because of the money his company manages to generate from vending bits of information printed on dead trees, or even not printed on dead trees. Somehow, this business continues to profit even when the books are available for free on bittorrent, or even officially available for free online ("Open Source").
This continued money stream is certainly a big reason he's so jovial and generous, but he's also a genuinely nice guy, humble, no doubt because he remembers that he built his company selling UNIX man pages with public-domain engravings of funny animals on the covers.
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Date: 2009-03-05 05:20 pm (UTC)Also: calumny!!
books bad...
Date: 2009-03-05 08:46 pm (UTC)and GOD I so hate it when peoplet impugNated....
I can't tell
Date: 2009-03-05 08:59 pm (UTC)After suggesting it dismissively in AEU yesterday, I'm starting to think we really should name this decade the two-point-ohs, after the penchant for believing we're reinventing the whole world anew right now.
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Date: 2009-03-08 07:37 pm (UTC)either:
a) When he started that "factor" show on fox or
b) "who's tim o'reilly?"
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c) what does calumnious mean?