I wonder if he will arrange a boycott of almost all European telecoms companies that make use of local loop unbundling: the principle is the same as they have to allow their competitors to use their last mile infrastructure.
I agree, it's definitely bait of some description or another. I don't think it offers "nothing to think about" though.
The article is right in that Opera is last in browser market share. Would it be pushing as hard against Microsoft (and for as long; I wrote about Opera when they were saying exactly the same thing 2 years ago) if Opera was in say, 2nd?
Baning MS from bundling IE with their OS is very hypocritical and great distraction move by EU bureaucracy.
They should open the tenders instead of making secret deals and make publicly available all the deals they have made with MS in the first place. That would limit corruption where business and government meets and give chance to alternatives and progress.
The whole anti-Opera campain is just more distraction from the real issue.
Now if only everyone was tech savvy we wouldn't have these problems. Microsoft would actually have to make a really good browser rather than leveraging it's near monopoly on the OS to deliver an average browser to the masses.
[+] [-] fno|17 years ago|reply
This seems like a typical flamebait. Nothing of value, nothing to think about, nothing but childish hate (or maybe simply attention/backlink whoring).
[+] [-] graemep|17 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Jem|17 years ago|reply
The article is right in that Opera is last in browser market share. Would it be pushing as hard against Microsoft (and for as long; I wrote about Opera when they were saying exactly the same thing 2 years ago) if Opera was in say, 2nd?
[+] [-] iamelgringo|17 years ago|reply
[+] [-] quoderat|17 years ago|reply
[+] [-] rarestblog|17 years ago|reply
[+] [-] tr3|17 years ago|reply
They should open the tenders instead of making secret deals and make publicly available all the deals they have made with MS in the first place. That would limit corruption where business and government meets and give chance to alternatives and progress.
The whole anti-Opera campain is just more distraction from the real issue.
[+] [-] FluidDjango|17 years ago|reply
Why is Opera's action so egregious? Competitors often take a stand on legal cases relating to each other.
And why among his list of "great alternative browsers" is IE first?
[+] [-] robryan|17 years ago|reply