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Destroy Internet Explorer campaign gets tooled up

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Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Beats Opera - who - won't release the code of their web-browser because, I read in an interview with the CEO, they don't see the benefit in releasing the source. Just who's benefit do you think he's thinking about when he says that?
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Probably because they'd loose their sales of Opera for portable devices.

Anyway, I'm glad Opera's closed source in a way because it stops it becoming bloated with shit, alright if I were a nerd I could possible recompile it but luckilly I don't have to bother.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Probably because they'd loose their sales of Opera for portable devices.
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Opera mini is the one for portable devices.

Anyhow even if they did make Opera mini free - if the device makers want a good web-browser - if they want Opera mini to have it's development continued - they will have to pay Opera if they don't find someone else to develop it. If they don't, then it just won't be developed, much.

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Anyway, I'm glad Opera's closed source in a way because it stops it becoming bloated with shit
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Oh yea - because all free software is bloated with shit.

--- Quote ---alright if I were a nerd I could possible recompile it but luckilly I don't have to bother.
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You've used Firefox - did you have to compile it just because it's free software?

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