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Opera Software Co-Founder Passes Away

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rest-in-peace dept.

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."

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  1. We need to fight cancer. by elucido · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In general, we need to discuss what can be done, to improve cancer screaning, and treatment, using open source technology. We need a slashdot or similar site which deals with genetics, technology, medicine, and health research and related topics.

    Cancer is a threat to us all, and while we discuss Netscape vs IE, or Linux vs Windows, we ignore the fact that we arent using open source technology or ideas in healthcare. I think we should discuss personalized-medicine, and ways to lower the cost of cancer screenings and treatments.

  2. Thanks for the Hope by Snap+E+Tom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't use Opera now, but I used it very briefly. Opera rose at a very dark time. IE had just won the browser war with Netscape 4 being a bloated, happy, piece of crap. Opera gave us hope when us anti-IEers were most down. Although I use Firefox now, the conditions for Firefox's success should be creditted to Opera.

  3. Re:Get his name right, please by Echnin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's different. The pope is named after religious figures, who have completely different names in different countries. Ioannes in Latin, John in English, Juan in Spanish, Johannes in Norwegian. If you were to call the pope Ioannes Paulus most Christians wouldn't be able to associate that with the religious figures he's named after. English speakers do not call the king of Spain "John Carl"; they call him "Juan Carlos". Norwegian speakers are often linguistic purists, however, and can be quite pedantic; if you look at the Norwegian wikipedia article for Bluetooth, for example, it's under "blåtann", which is the Norwegian name for the king after whom the standard is named.

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  4. Re:OT - I'd use Opera, but... by XO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pick up one of the weekly builds at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam ..

    The Content Blocker is still definitely work in progress, but every build has had some very nice improvements to it all.

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    "Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
  5. In addition... by arafel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just went to the download site, selected Ubuntu, and there are packages for 5.10, 5.4, and 4.10. For most places, you're lucky to get "Debian-ish, if you're lucky".

    Making packages for Debian unstable and testing is definitely something most companies wouldn't do, though. Above and beyond the call of duty.