Big Surprise: Tim O'Reilly is not Evil

Tim O'Reilly has taken the time to respond to the "owning web 2.0" controversy... and guess what... it turns out he has a reasonable explanation... that he does want to protect his brand of conference but isn't trying to claim ownership of web 2.0 in any other context. I agree with Tim's point that a polite/informal cease-and-desist request would have been a nicer first step but otherwise, I still can't see anything that he did wrong. Hopefully we can all get back to work now.