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Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA

Posted by Zonk on from the friday-morning-project dept.

Viggeh! writes "An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland. The new browser was released Tuesday and was downloaded 600.000 times in the first 48 hours since release. The challenge will end on Saturday at 0900 a.m. CET, so if you want to try out some new software and make the CEO stick to his big words, download it at Opera's webpage(direct link)."

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  1. Why will he do this? by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Troll

    Will it improve the user experience somehow?

    Will it distrupt Microsoft's monopoly on the browser market?

    Will it create world peace?

    No it will not. Since it achieve none of these things, I proclaim the whole excercise pointless and should not be attempted.

    1. Re:Why will he do this? by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Troll

      But that just offers an analagous situation. You do not provide any justification for his actions or for my existence.

      Does this mean you agree with me?

  2. Finally a commercial browser by orionware · · Score: 0, Troll

    Finally! Someone understands that what the net loving community needs is $39 web browser! No longer will I have use one of those crappy free browsers.

    Ie?! Come on, it's free!
    Moz/Fox? They are even worse because you get the source code if you want. I don't know where you are from, but where I'm from, that's a glaring sign of BULLSHIT!

    Thanks Opera Man (Ahh. When SNL sucked LESS). I hope you hit a million. Maybe you and your unimportant contribution to the long ago won browser war will sink into the icy waters. Like Netcrap did..

    Go ahead. Mod me down..

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    Karma means nothing to me, so suck it...
  3. Re:Downloaded.... by ErnieD · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who downloaded it a few times just to drive the number up. Gotta keep these corporate-types to their word, no?

  4. Re:Well then. by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 0, Troll
    I guess he doesn't have much faith in his own product eh?

    I guess he figures people will just use the numerous free web browsers like Mozilla, Firefox, or even Internet Explorer. People that use Opera remind me of Amiga users in the mid 1990's... rapidly fanatical about supporting their product as superior at a time when the world wasn't paying any attention to them.