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Opera Purchase Rumour Control
We've had several submissions this morning concerning a CoolTechZone article stating that Microsoft has purchased Opera, seemingly confirming the Dvorak article we reported on yesterday. However, roblimo has followed up with Opera and found that to be (so far), less than true. Opera PR person Berit Hanson told Slashdot by phone from Oslo, Norway, that "last week it was Google, this week it's Microsoft." She laughed and added, "If I was working for Microsoft I think I'd know it, but I'm still in Oslo, not Washington, still working for Opera." Which, of course, is not to say it won't happen ... it just hasn't happened yet.
I didn't think that it was like Microsoft follow John Dvorak on every crazy opinion he had!
I heard that Opera is going to buy Microsoft! That would be the best because Opera is better than Microsoft because Microsoft are capitalist pigs!
And then Mozilla should buy Operasoft because Mozilla is Open Source and Open Source is just the best thing ever, fershure!
Correct. But they could adopt 'Firefox' (or the superior Mozilla suite, if they're not lightweight dilletantes who only 'browse' the web) and use it for their own.
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