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While most of them are well done and funny in their way, they are not actually parodies of O'Reilly, they are parodies of developer attitudes using O'Reilly cover style (similar to meme generator images).

As an O'Reilly parody I would expect something like "Official paper version of an OSS manual you can download on the project page". The Stack Overflow cover is kind of like that.

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par·o·dy ˈperədē/ noun

noun: parody; plural noun: parodies

1. an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

While splitting hairs can be fun, for all intents and purposes, I'd say this is a parody.

Staying in that definition: My comment was that the "deliberate exaggeration" would be an exaggeration of the original, not of something else. For example, these meme generator images using movie pictures with Brad Pitt are also not parodies of Brad Pitt.

But yeah, I know that it is hair splitting. ;)

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