Wow, are people pissed. Techmeme is on fire with people angry about O’Reilly and CMP and how they handled the Web 2.0 half-day conference (sending them a cease and desist letter). I think the guys over at CMP made a mistake, and I think that it leaves O’Reilly looking bad, but people are acting like Tim himself went to Ireland and shot Tom Raftery. It was badly played, and there’s a lesson to be learned here, but there are more productive ways to start a dialogue about what those lessons should be.