Why dont they make Opera 12.xx/Presto open source?
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Deleted User last edited by
Why dont they make Opera 12.xx/Presto open source and let lovers of real Opera takeover the development? Who benefits from it wasting away? Is it fear that it would be a superior product to their Google browser clone?
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lem729 last edited by admin
@Blackbird71 made this comment in a post on April 20 here in the forum, and I think it explains the issue. See this thread where the comment was made.
https://forums.opera.com/post/35693
"Indeed, Presto is not open source. Opera owns it and the rights to it; moreover, Opera has licensed Presto to a some other companies for use in other products, and those continue to return license revenue to Opera. Such licenses probably limit what Opera can do with Presto in terms of making it public to the licensee's competitors. If only for those reasons, it's extremely unlikely for Opera to release Presto into the public domain. However, an even greater reason looms: why would a company establish free access to code it spent years and mega-dollars to develop if the only likely result of that was to assist other development houses to use it to compete with Opera?
After all these years, Microsoft has never released DOS into the public domain, nor is it ever likely to. Its reasons in many cases run parallel to those of Opera. The reality is that Opera is the only company that legally can release a Presto-based browser, but Opera has decided to go a different direction with Blink - just as Microsoft has chosen to go a different direction from DOS with its newer OSs, but it still doesn't make DOS open source. Don't hold your breath waiting for another web browser based on Presto." -
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