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Mark Holtz
09-20-05, 10:35 AM
From Opera's Web Site:

Feel Free: Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing FeeOpera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download - completely free of charge – at http://www.opera.com.

"Today we invite the entire Internet community to use Opera and experience Web browsing as it should be," said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. "Removing the ad banner and licensing fee will encourage many new users to discover the speed, security and unmatched usability of the Opera browser." FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/09/20/)
n8dagr8
09-20-05, 11:47 AM
I tried it a while back and the banner aggravated me so much I had to stop using it before I even got a good feel for it...this is good news for them. I never understood charging for a web browser. I mean, with all the good free ones out there.
Geronimo
09-20-05, 12:21 PM
I tried it a while back and the banner aggravated me so much I had to stop using it before I even got a good feel for it...this is good news for them. I never understood charging for a web browser. I mean, with all the good free ones out there.


having said that how do they support themselves?
juan ellitinez
09-20-05, 12:22 PM
having said that how do they support themselves?I guess the same way netscape does (they used to charge too)
n8dagr8
09-20-05, 04:10 PM
having said that how do they support themselves?

how do MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Firefox, etc. support themselves?

Did you use Opera?
Geronimo
09-20-05, 04:14 PM
how do MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Firefox, etc. support themselves?

Did you use Opera?


I assume that you are not serious with asking how MSN, Yahoo and AOL support themselves. Yahoo is not even a browser.

Firefox is a foundation. It was a t one point funded by AOL. I understand that currently it is getting some funding from Google and has an endowment from the AOL days. But money is tight tehre. Sometimes there are no nightly builds because the build box is down and it takes awhile to repair or replace it.
Mark Holtz
09-24-05, 06:48 PM
From Opera:

Twice the Speed and No Speedos: Opera Reaches One Million Downloads in Two DaysMore than one million people have downloaded the Opera browser in the two days since Opera announced it was dropping the ad banner and going completely free.FULL ARTICLE HERE (http://opera.com/announcements/en/2005/09/22/)