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Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic

Posted by Hemos on from the stop-submitting-this-stupid-story dept.

rRogta writes "Previously reported on slashdot here, Opera CEO boldly promises to swim across the Atlantic should the new Opera browser be downloaded a million times in the first four days after it's release. Well, they reached their goal and in this press release it says he's now preparing for the long swim."

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  1. How the heck? by beatdown · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not sure it is possible to pull this off. Isn't the north Atlantic cold at this time of year?

  2. download it by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well...despite of being closed software, I must admited Opera knows how to support linux - if you go to their download page they have packages for the main distros, ej: they've separated packages for debain woody, sarge and sid, different versions of fedora, etc...in fact I'm a a debian user (in case you haven't noticed) and I've the following line in my sources.list:

    deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free

  3. how he'll pull this off by keithmoore · · Score: 4, Interesting

    charter an aircraft big enough to put a large water tank inside, and swim in the tank while the aircraft is flying to Iceland and thence to North America.

    nice PR stunt!

  4. Re:What about sales? by MoonFog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You realise this was said during an internal meeting and was released by the Opera people more or less without his concent. I suspect they did it as a joke rather than a publicity stunt even though it has turned into something like that now.