Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Feb 2008 15:26 UTC, submitted by Robert Kratky
Opera Software's CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner explains why they will not release the Opera browser as open source, arguing that open standards are more important than open source. Von Tetzchner also talks about the company's antitrust complaint to the European Commission in which it accuses Microsoft of abusing its dominant position by tying Internet Explorer to Windows.
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RE[2]: never too late to fix whats broken
by PlatformAgnostic on Fri 22nd Feb 2008 04:47
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Special deals with OEMs are specifically against the rules and probably aren't happening. The reason OEMs don't include anything other than IE is that adding something else would increase their testing burden. Right now, IE comes with the OS and is proven to work (some people differ on how well it works, but almost everyone will agree that it's good enough). OEMs have nothing to gain from including something else.
RE[3]: never too late to fix whats broken
by dagw on Fri 22nd Feb 2008 09:31
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Member since:2005-07-06
The reason OEMs don't include anything other than IE is that adding something else would increase their testing burden
Most OEMs ship their computers with a whole bunch of extra software, this doesn't seem to affect their testing burden too much. I'm sure adding firefox to the mix wouldn't be any harder than adding, for example, the symantec antivirus demo they already ship with.
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It's worth adding to that, that Netscape 2.x - 4.x used to come pre-installed on windows and mac machines, back when it was top dog.
There is today good reason for OEMs to choose an alternative. The question is, why don't they choose the alternative.
My money's on unfair licensing deals that Microsoft gets them into. There is the chance though that they simply have a better product in the eyes of most OEMs. Then again, when is the last time you saw any group of people always agree on anything - I mean besides conservative republicans (-ducks-). :-D
A good fair hearing should help to bear this all out, so Opera has my complete support.