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A message from Chris Mills, Opera
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Hi there,
I'm mailing to tell you about one of Opera's new actions. We are
filing a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft, to
try to force them to support web standards properly, and to decouple
Internet Explorer from Windows. We think these actions are essential
for the evolution of web standards and the open web, which Microsoft
is hindering due to it's dominant market share controlling consumer
choice in web browsers and trying to force web developers to adopt
proprietary technologies and techniques (ie hacks, and things like
Silverlight.) For more information, check out:
1. Håkon Wium Lie's open letter to the web community at
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/msft/
2. Opera's press release on the subject at
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/12/13/
We are doing this because we care about web standards and the open
web, not because we are seeking any kind of monetary (or other) gain
from the hopefully positive outcome.
Obviously decoupling IE from Windows might sound a bit strange - what
would you do then, even if you did want to download another browser?
We are not asking for IE to be taken off Windows, rather we are
requesting that users be given more of a choice in some way, or for
other browsers to at least be acknowledged. The European Commission
itself says that anything more than 40% market share begins to become
illegally anti-competitive. Surely this rule applies here.
If you agree with us in this, then show your support by:
1. Blogging about it
2. Forwarding this to others in your network/company/group of friends
3. Getting your company to issue a press release about this in
support, if appropriate
Thanks for listening.
Chris Mills
Developer Relationship Manager
Opera Software ASA
Editor, http://dev.opera.com <http://dev.opera.com/> - crucial web design
and development
knowledge!
Blog - http://my.opera.com/chrismills
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