Re:A case study of why software patents are needed
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Opera 8 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Neither mouse gestures nor tabbed interface to multiple documents were invented by Opera. They "only" brought it to the browser world in a good way. Software patents would have prohibited that and maybe would have lead to several applications, each with one killer feature, but none with all of them.
Re:Here is a MUCH easier way to get Opera for Free
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Opera 8 Released
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· Score: 1
Opera 8 is NOT a free upgrade for every user that has a 7.x license. It depends on when you bought your 7.x license and, I suppose, if it was an upgrade or not. The free Opera 7.54 license from that link will not work with Opera 8.0 final but you can buy (or will be able to do so in a few days) the upgrade for the very special price of 8 from that site. Could be that they at least require you to be in Germany, as it is a special offer of that german computer magazine (c't)
Johansen lives in Norway which is not part of the EU (mostly because of its oil supplies and related politic reasons AFAIK). It is therefore not required to introduce any EU-directive.
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Neither mouse gestures nor tabbed interface to multiple documents were invented by Opera. They "only" brought it to the browser world in a good way. Software patents would have prohibited that and maybe would have lead to several applications, each with one killer feature, but none with all of them.
Opera 8 is NOT a free upgrade for every user that has a 7.x license. It depends on when you bought your 7.x license and, I suppose, if it was an upgrade or not. The free Opera 7.54 license from that link will not work with Opera 8.0 final but you can buy (or will be able to do so in a few days) the upgrade for the very special price of 8 from that site. Could be that they at least require you to be in Germany, as it is a special offer of that german computer magazine (c't)
Is it allowed to share an ADC account?
Johansen lives in Norway which is not part of the EU (mostly because of its oil supplies and related politic reasons AFAIK). It is therefore not required to introduce any EU-directive.
Myst IV crashed on 10.3.7 for me, works with 10.3.8. Cyan said it was a problem with the graphics driver.