On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul J Thompson wrote: > > I recently was looking to see if the web browser Opera was available for > > Linux. Well, when looking at their site I discovered that they are > > currently > > doing a poll of sorts to see how many Linux users (along with some other > > OSs) > > would be interested in their browser. They have pledged that if they have > > 3000 Linux people interested by the end of November (when the poll closes) > > that they will start working on developement. > > My scam-o-meter is going haywire. They say after the 3000 people register, > they will be contacted again, and asked to pay $35 (for a product that will > not be written yet!) with the money going toward development. > > Maybe these guys are legit. Maybe they will disappear with $105,000. I love > commercial develpment of software for linux, but I'm getting the signal that > Opera Software doesn't have any confidence in the linux market -- so why > should I have any confidence in them?
True on the paying for something that has yet to start development. But I doub't they will disapear soon. They have been arround for almost 2 years now. I have used several releases of it myself. It is a very nice browser. Nicer now with javascript support. The best feature I liked was the zoom feature.. nice for hard of site, or late, late, late night working. > > -- > see shy jo > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ SWAO: http://desertwinds.multipleimage.com/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
