Ok, I'll try. Please note that it doesn't reflect any of my opinion ! Here is the excerpt :
The interview begins with Christen Krogh explaining everything is going very fine for Opera, despite the financial crisis, that they should grow of 35 to 50 % this year, and that their browser is spread wide on many platforms from mobile phones to Wii and Gameboy DSi... Question : Don't you fear competition from OpenSource web browsers like Firefox or Webkit, used by Apple, Google and Palm ? Answer : Not really. OpenSource is unable to create a quality web browser or even to innovate as fast as we do. Our success upon mobile phones constructors and operators, and many others, is the proof. And this in spite of we are asking money for our browser ! If firefox or webkit, which is in reality controlled by Apple, were technically superior, I am certain that constructors would have shift. Question : Though, on the desktop, Opera has a ridiculous market share compared to IE, Firefox or even Apple Safari... Answer : It's true in the US, but not in Russia and many East-Europe countries where we are number 1. IE and Safari success is explained by Microsoft and Apple fire power. We, we have to fight to have our browser on a PC. Hope it helps Guillaume RAVI KUMAR a écrit : > Hi, > do you by any chance mean that the Open Source Browsers like Firefox are not > good enough. Please elaborate, and any information may kindly be translated > to English, even an abstract of the interview in French. > Cheers > Ravi Kumar > > > --- On Sun, 1/25/09, Guillaume Sueur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Guillaume Sueur <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Top ten myths for open source in geo? >> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <[email protected]> >> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 2:31 AM >> in a wider range, you may add that one, from Christen >> Krogh, Opera's CTO : >> "Open Source is unable to build a good web >> browser" (full interview in >> french : >> http://www.lexpansion.com/economie/actualite-high-tech/opera-l-open-source-n-est-pas-capable-de-creer-un-navigateur-web-de-qualite_172911.html?xtor=RSS-128) >> >> >> >> Guillaume >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
