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Re: Opera for Amiga project
« Reply #29 from previous page: December 27, 2003, 04:55:37 PM »
@PPCRulez
I somehow doubt that Hyperion would have enough time for such a port,
and I also doubt that 50$/per copy would be enough to cover the licence-cost.


It is much to early for such projects.
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Re: Opera for Amiga project
« Reply #30 on: December 27, 2003, 05:01:38 PM »
@Kronos

Yes, that's probably true. Anyway my point was that raising the price of AOS a bit and include Opera would be a nice way to go.

Porting Opera which not only is the best browser in the market would give AmigaOS some attetion as well. It would also be easier to raise the price of AOS if including Opera since alot of people expect a Firebird/Mozilla port to be free. Besides Firebird/Mozilla is simply not as good as Opera.
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Re: Opera for Amiga project
« Reply #31 on: December 27, 2003, 05:07:12 PM »
PPCRulez: OS4 is a loss allready.. Raising a price with 50USD won't cover costs of making Opera, it would only lead even less sales of OS4 and Aone. Those systems are way too expensive allready...
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Re: Opera for Amiga project
« Reply #32 on: December 27, 2003, 09:40:35 PM »
I have to say I support Friebird for the reason that it can be ported over by dedicated peoples working not in a commercial venture, and it's free... Windows/Linux/Mac have many good free browsers heck they all even have something unique (KHTML, Safari, IE yuck...), it sucks having to pay 30-50 bucks for a good browser...
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Re: Opera for Amiga project
« Reply #33 on: December 28, 2003, 04:20:52 PM »
@Kronos

a few 1000 zealots
is a SOLID user-group :-)

Let me clearify my point here.

I am NOT an amiga User, I did use an A500 back in 87-91, but I have since used PC.

I realize that the number of users is low, and that Opera Inc is a company like most others, interested in earning money from whatever they produce.

But remember that few has ever earned anything by playing it safe, some investment was needed in the beginning, such as: cash, time, freedom or similar ( I believe John Carmack slept on the floor of "his office" for years when developing doom and the other early ID games, finally receiving a mattress as a gift from his pals :-)).

Anyway, I apologize about any offence taken.

Still my main point is not the advancement of Amiga or similar. It is the hightened competition that an advancement of Amiga will have.
Competition is good, Monopoly sucks(most times, Systembolaget in Sweden is an exception despite recent "troubles").

The PC system has a few perks such as:
Marketstandard.
easily accessible Hardware.
rather cheap.

won't bother with the limitations.

BTW, what is your one project?
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