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One more thing Opera is paid to give there desktop browser for Free :
http://gigaom.com/2005/09/21/google-made-opera-browser-free/
Another addition :
If Open Standard where truely followed then no one would dare choose a similarly named extension file , just for the sake that this file could go on any OS and be useable and made recognized as is. Open Standard is meaningless if a derivative can be made that shadow , ressemble or break standard compliance with the original standard :
http://filext.com/
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EA
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EB
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EC
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5ED
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EE
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EF
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EG
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EH
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EI
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EJ
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EK
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EL
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EM
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EN
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EO
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EP
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EQ
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5ER
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5ES
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5ET
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EU
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EV
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EW
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EX
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EY
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EZ
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5E%5B0-9%5D
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5E%5B%5EA-Z0-...
If a better format happen to emerge why not give it it's own name and make it the new standard everyone knows about. Standards are based on known quantity exept in Software where as Microsoft set most of the standard , but almost no one know's what those are made of , hence incompatibility at the standard level ...
Edited 2008-02-22 06:25 UTC
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2005-11-13
Me too. As long as you're using open standards, not really much of a chance for vendor lock-in.
As for Opera, it's really Firefox that's eating its lunch and not IE.
Edited 2008-02-21 17:41 UTC