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."

Comments

In his memory, we need to launch a new movement.

[elucido]

We need to launch an open source movement or foundation in his memory to find an open source cure for cancer. I think all of us have lost close friends and family to cancer and this is a problem we should unite to solve.

that sux

[fftl4life]

thats to bad, i like opera it is a good browser. though i use firefox, i have used opera and it has got some real cool features and ideas that other browsers should definatly consider integrating with their browser. i hope that opera can still continue to put out the quality browsers that they have been the past couple years.

Geir Ivarsoy RIP

[Telemachas]

From Tom Rettig @ 1985 * REMEMBER.PRG * Sometimes we forget... * USE Yourself SET TALK OFF CLEAR * DO WHILE ALIVE STORE "Love" TO Heart STORE "Health" TO Body STORE "Peace" TO Mind STORE "Compassion" TO Others STORE "Esteem" TO Self STORE "Trust" TO Humanity STORE "faith" TO God REPLACE Negative WITH Positive,; Judgment WITH Acceptance,; Resentment WITH Forgiveness REPLACE Hopelessness WITH Choice,; Confusion WITH Clarity,; Procrastination WITH Participation REPLACE Separation WITH Connection,; Lack WITH Abundance,; Sorrow WITH Celebration @ all, times SAY your_truth IF its_time EXIT ENDIF ENDDO * SAVE TO Always CLEAR ALL RETURN * * EOF: remember.prg

Re:And now...

[fimbulvetr]

Yes, but will it be in time for HD-DVD?

Re:Get his name right, please

[JamMule]

Everybody with a native language consisting of more than ASCII chars is definetely used to spelling variations.

As a Finn I must totally disagree. I find it extremely annoying when people misspell names or pronounce them completely wrong. It is not so difficult to use the correct spelling and to find out how the name is pronounced.

I find it extremely arrogant and self centered for English speaking people to totally ignore the rest of the world. I think that most of the problems we have nowadays with multiple character sets and other internationalization/localization issues could have been avoided without the "English alphabet is enough for everyone!"-mentality.

I prefer Opera.

[Lord Kano]

It's been my browser of choice for several years. Although, I do use Firefox and IE as well. Some pages don't render properly in Opera. So for those, I use Mozilla/Firefox, and for the few that STILL don't render properly I use IE.

LK