Old 1st April 2005, 00:57   #1
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Opera sold to Microsoft

It sais here on an updated site 0:36 norwegian time (opera is norwegian) that microsoft bought opera software for $250 000 000.

What do ya think about that??!?!?

Sorry for this, but this link is for the norwegian page http://itpro.no/art/7685.html

I didn't find any similar article about this in english

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Old 1st April 2005, 01:02   #2
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Oh well, now only three options in the "Browser" catagory are worth using.

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Don't want to ruin it, but check the date on the article.
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Old 1st April 2005, 01:21   #4
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haha, pretty well written actually, allthough 250 mio $ is a bit unrealistic
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Old 1st April 2005, 03:49   #5
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haha, pretty well written actually, allthough 250 mio $ is a bit unrealistic
Honestly. 250 Mil. You would think they would go for Mozilla before Opera.

Or maybe they did.
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Old 1st April 2005, 04:53   #6
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mozilla is open source, I don't think it can be bought
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Old 1st April 2005, 06:01   #7
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Licensing the codebase could be bought from Time/Warner/AOL/Netscape


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Old 1st April 2005, 06:09   #8
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Two words guys:

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Old 1st April 2005, 06:14   #9
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it's not April over here yet.

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Old 1st April 2005, 06:16   #10
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Old 1st April 2005, 06:18   #11
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? He's in cali.

It's what, 10 there right now.

Or r u just messing with me :@
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Old 1st April 2005, 08:42   #12
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it was about 10:15 my time when i posted. it's 12:41 now.

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Old 1st April 2005, 09:43   #13
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Yeah I know. Megarock said look at the clock.. guess he doesn't get the whole time zone thing... lol or he didn't notice the Merced California thing...

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Old 1st April 2005, 10:44   #14
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it need only be april fools where the joke is occuring.
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And did any body actually think that was an actual true story.

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i know i didn't.

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Old 1st April 2005, 22:35   #17
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I thought someone was just misinformed. Kinda of a lame joke don't you think?
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