You all know that I don't particularly like Opera. I find the product to be lacking polish, over-complicated and without the marketing pizazz that has made Firefox a household name. That's just my personal opinion, and that opinion has garnered many complaints of unjustness. To that end, to present a fairer discussion I would like to put a simple question to the community: "What should Opera do?".
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Member since:2007-06-21
"tell that to Microsoft who has some huge communities around a lot of their products."
There is a huge difference here. Microsoft has a platform. Others build products around microsoft's products. They profit. Of course there is a community around.
Opera, on the other hand, is not having a platform. You dont build products around opera's product, so people have no profit in helping opera.
I think Opera community is there to fill this gap; but its creating a users community, not a developers community. A successfull project needs both.
Member since:2005-07-13
Opera has a platform too, just not as OS. here is an example of others building products around opera: http://www.opera.com/business/customers/
other things of interest:
http://www.opera.com/business/solutions/devices/
http://www.opera.com/business/solutions/
Dev comunity:
http://dev.opera.com/
Member since:
2005-07-13
"Opera needs a community. Non-FOSS softwares have no real community. Free-it up Opera!"
Come check out the Opera community, its a pretty good group of users and coders, and the users opinions are really taken to heart in most cases. http://my.opera.com/community/members/
tell that to Microsoft who has some huge communities around a lot of their products. Head over to TechNet and see what I mean. Opera has a decent community too. FOSS communities are a mixed bag in many cases, especially the ones surounding distrobutions of a product (weather that be Linux, databases, desktop environments, etc). the FOSS world has some of the most divided communities and often feels like its social politics of some of these comunities hurt it more than help it. On the reverse note, if it went for the suport of the communities we wouldn't be where we are now, and where we are now is pretty impressive.
so, umm... i had a point i was going ot get at, but it's gone now. something about how you don't need to be FOSS to have a strong community. ...oh wait! i remember what my point was, its what i just said!