It may bee too little, too late for someone like Universal, but its certainly another step in the right direction. I think we can call 2007 the year when DRM died -- about time and good riddance!
And from the words that Eben was using, I personally felt attacked. You see, my roots in open source can mostly be traced back to Tim O'Reilly's efforts. I created my network of Open Source friends at O'Reilly conferences and from that I created MusicBrainz -- without this network MusicBrainz may have never happened. And if it did, it would certainly look different today. Tim O'Reilly gave us the first $500 that I used to open a bank account for MusicBrainz.
I learned Perl, Python and JavaScript from O'Reilly books -- most of which were given to me by O'Reilly at excellent conferences or special events like Foo Camp. Tim O'Reilly has invested tons of money into Open Source centric companies, which employ open source hackers and let them get away from the drudgery of hacking on lifeless code in big companies. Yes, Tim has made some money doing so, but there is nothing wrong with that -- even RMS has said this.
To say that Tim has wasted ten years because he doesn't pander to your Free Software rigid ideals, your BS rhetoric, your GNU/Linux crap and doesn't worship at the altar of Mogen and Stallman is rude and insulting. I personally take offense to your words at OSCON!
UPDATE: I've removed the last line of the original post since it was probably a little uncalled for -- thanks for your words Tim.
