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Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is credited with coining the term Web 2.0.

After graduating from Harvard with a B.A. in Classics, he became involved in the field of computer manuals. He defines his company as a technology transfer company. O'Reilly is on the board of CollabNet, and was on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe. In March 2007, he joined MySQL AB’s Board of Directors.

In December 2006, O'Reilly's publishing firm donated $10,000 to Creative Commons, demonstrating his interest in the Free Culture movement.

==Links==
*Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O'Reilly
*Tim's blog at oreilly.com: http://radar.oreilly.com/tim
*Tim's page at oreilly.com: http://tim.oreilly.com
*Tim on Open Source Software: http://tim.oreilly.com/opensource/index.csp
*What Is Web 2.0: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
*Open Source Paradigm Shift: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html

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