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Opera Software Co-Founder Passes Away
worb writes "One of the two founders of Opera Software, Geir Ivarsoy, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer. His funeral yesterday was attended by Opera employees who paid their last respects to their former lead programmer. While Opera hasn't had the same success as Firefox on the desktop, it has had considerable success in the mobile phone market due to its speed and small footprint, combined with excellent standards compliance and innovative features."
Though I am no opera user - thanks for the effort supporting an alternative solution. The possibility to choose is well appreciated.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
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The alternative he provided created much-needed freedom to leave MSIE back when Netscape couldn't get its act together. Rest in peace.
Thanks for all your work, Mr. Ivarsoy. The innovative features in Opera have had a great amount of influence in the browser market and beyond.
your sick, using someones death, or the battle to cure cancer to push open source... shame...
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I hope, when I die I've left behind something that inspires. The desire to create I believe comes from somewhere deep within and is a capacity that clings within you despite what life tosses your way .. it never seems to fade. For him, it never will, people will take the best part of him, what he was able to dream together and make it their own.
.. ) , I'm sad that he won't.
I think that's truly immortality, when you stop and think about what shapes your creativity.
Didn't find his age on the blog? Wow he looked young. Opera hasn't seen the real fruits of his efforts and creativity (just yet, but starting to
It's probably not the right time to rant about this, but... could people *please* take care to actually spell names correctly? It's Ivarsøy, not Ivarsoy; you'd think that at *least* his Slashdot obituary would get this right.
It's not difficult, either. If you can't type the ø character directly, use a HTML entity, ø (ø), or ø (ø) - it's really simple.
But don't just substitute another letter that looks vaguely similar. Would you like it if somebody whose native language doesn't have a "d" substituted a "b" in your name for it because the two letters look quite similar? Of course not. So please, do the same thing and try to spell other people's names correctly. With HTML entities, it's not hard, and it's a sign of respect - doubly so on an obituary.
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Rest in Peace, Geir Ivarsoy.
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I know this is Slashdot (News for ners etc.) but someone passed away. Is it really appropriate to talk about the marketshare of his programming work?
I've had this discussion with people many times, but I personally think that people, even programmers, are worth more then the code they write. And I would personally perfer that people don't talk about my code when I pass-away.
God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man - Kronecker
> While Opera hasn't had the same success as Firefox on the desktop, it has had
> considerable success in the mobile phone market due to its speed and small
> footprint, combined with excellent standards compliance and innovative
> features."
Plus the fact that there's a commercial organisation behind it, pushing it, as opposed to some other software being out there but with no motivation on the part of the programmers to actually get it put onto any devices...