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Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-you-like-to-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a press release from Opera Software ASA, they have settled legal claims with an international corporation resulting in payment to Opera of net USD 12.75 million. The interesting bit is that the international corporation is unknown. Dagbladet speculates that Microsoft is paying up. They reason it has something to do with this."

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  1. SCO by randomErr · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think SCO was threating legal action and they smacked them down like the dogs they are. Just my opinion.

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  2. Re:Great by BrokenHalo · · Score: 0, Troll
    I know this thread is designed to bring out the Opera zealots, but the "with this" in the original post seems a bit FUDish to me.

    I just made the experiment of following those links to msn.com, and although I agree that different code is sent from msn.com according to the browser user-agent flag, I see no actual difference in the content (leaving out the banner ads, which are blocked in my hosts file).

    All the experiment tells me is that there is more open space on the page rendered for Opera - which probably makes the page less messy and cluttered.

    That aside, the content at msn.com isn't worth reading anyway.