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Opera Free as in Beer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

nekura writes "Just last month, Opera was celebrating their 10 year anniversary by giving away free registration codes; now they've trumped that by offering Opera for free. Quoth their site, 'Opera has removed the banners, found within our browser, and the licensing fee. Opera's growth, due to tremendous worldwide customer support, has made todays milestone an achievable goal. Premium support is available.' Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now has virtually no reason not to."

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  1. My reasons for not switching. by Alranor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anyone who was on the verge of switching before now have virtually no reason not to

    AdBlock Plus
    BugMeNot
    CustomizeGoogle
    DictionarySearch
    Farkit
    Gmail Notifier
    Nuke Anything
    Plain Text Links
    Switch Proxy Tool
    Greasemonkey

    I'm glad there's a version without the annoying advertising, but it wasn't that which was keeping me from using Opera.

  2. Re:No reason? I think not. by LLuthor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Its easier to get Opera to make a change to their browser than Firefox. I needed a specific CSS feature that was used by my company on its pages, and neither FF or Opera supported it properly. I submitted the bug to Opera and to FF. I also wrote a patch later that week for FF. The FF developers completely ignored me and my patch and any further requests. Meanwhile, Opera's next beta had the problem fixed with no further interaction from me, except for an email request for a way to reproduce the bug. FF is open-source only in name and the fact that I can see the code. Every part of the development is totally closed.

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    LL
  3. Re:No reason? I think not. by black+mariah · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Thier policies toward code changes have nothing to do with thier license agreement.
    Which just goes to show that open source is pretty fucking useless unless you want to fork the entire fucking codebase of everything you submit a patch for.
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    'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
  4. Open-Source as end-user feature!? by porneL · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did you patch and compile your Firefox? Or did you just download binary like 80 millions other users?