On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Dave Johnson <dave.johnson.inqu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> wrote: >> Since Opera is fast and leaks memory less than Firefox, this stinks. >> >> Has anyone ported Chromium (the open source of Chrome) to Solaris? >> That wouldn't do all the other stuff that Opera does, but it would make >> an impressive browser. It _would_ do one thing that Opera does, namely >> provide a rendering engine alternative to Firefox and Seamonkey. >> WebKit does pretty well - I have very few times when I have to use >> Firefox instead of Safari on my Mac. > > Yes, this sucks. But it was not Operas fault. It was Oracle which > stepped over the line. > > The short story is: > The Opera staff asked - as usual - for help to circumvent a Solaris > bug. The (new) response, totally the opposite from Sun's helpful > behavior of the past was: > 1. Opera did not purchase support for Solaris > 2. Without support Oracle will not answer technical questions or > provide ANY help > 3. Opera uses the SOLARIS trademark without permission > 4. Opera will have to buy a full year of support for 502018 Euro to > obtain questions to their answers > > 502018 Euro for WHAT? How crazy is Oracle? They provided one of the > best browsers on the planet for Solaris and Oracle did what? Ask for > money? IMO the manager responsible at Oracle should be fired. > > The Opera legal folks is looking into whether Oracle's emails can be > published or not. > > Dave
Ha!! How did somebody put it yesterday in another thread on this alias ... ? ---> ^^No comment from my side!^^ It is really shocking. Thanks for sharing this. Is your source the Opera management? %mab _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
