Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 11:07 UTC
Linux.com has a review of Opera 9.5, which also includes various benchmarks for Opera, Firefox, Safari, and IE on both Windows and Linux. Linuxcom concludes: "Opera 9.5 is full to the brim with features and improvements and highly customizable. By rolling in apps such as the mail client and IRC chat application, and integrating them into a user's browsing experience, Opera 9.5 is a worthy challenger to Firefox 3. It surely has enough power and features to make it my favorite browser. If only it were free software and open source!"
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RE[3]: Free and OpenSauce?
by Kishe on Tue 24th Jun 2008 12:52
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If Opera was OSS more(Linux) distros might include it.
If Opera was OSS maybe we'd finnaly get one with GTK-widgets.
If Opera was OSS we'd get an awesome portable fast renderingengine to use in projects.
etc etc...
If Opera was OSS maybe we'd finnaly get one with GTK-widgets.
If Opera was OSS we'd get an awesome portable fast renderingengine to use in projects.
etc etc...
If Opera was OSS every linux distro would have their own fork of it
If Opera was OSS, one opera fork would support GTK-widgets but suck with QT, one fork wouldnt support GTK-widgets and work with QT and third one would be mediocre with both.
If Opera was OSS, Opera itself wouldnt get any better, there would be just 300 forked projects for it that would act exactly same but have one single, usually meaningless, feature added to it to make it "different"
Problem with OSS is that it will never ever create a tower of babel...instead it will create tens of thousands of mudcakes...just because there's no co-operation and every OSS developer wants to do their own little tinkering disregarding the others.
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2006-11-14
if it is free software, then it is already open source (isnt open source one of the critical component of free software?)
or did the summary meant, "free" as in "free beer"? but opera is already "free" as in "free beer" ..can you have a non free(as in free beer) and open source software? .. i just dont see the point of having both "free" and "open source" joined together the way the summary did ..am i missing something?
seriously, what good will it do open sourcing it?
i think the biggest challenge opera faces is having people taking the trouble to install it. as long as there is something seriously and visibly wrong with people's browsers, most people wont go out of their way to look for other browsers and stumble on opera on their searches ..opera should start looking into making deals with computer manufactures to have it bundled on new installs ..they might start with talking to google to have it included in the software pack or whatever they call it