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[4]: never too late to fix whats broken
by PlatformAgnostic on Sat 23rd Feb 2008 20:17
in reply to "RE[3]: never too late to fix whats broken"
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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.