From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 20 13:26:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F3316A407 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:26:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from annara@opera.com) Received: from sam.opera.com (sam.opera.com [193.69.113.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1B543DCC for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:23:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from annara@opera.com) Received: from id-c0410.oslo.opera.com (pat.opera.com [193.69.113.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by sam.opera.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge3) with ESMTP id kAKDNUvn030492 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:23:30 GMT To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Anna Rajsman" Organization: Opera Software ASA Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20061117214332.0F7285B21@mail.bitblocks.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:23:21 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20061117214332.0F7285B21@mail.bitblocks.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.02 (Win32) Subject: Re: Opera and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:26:12 -0000 Hi again, I would like to apologize for the confusion I caused on Friday. Please read my explanation in my blog: http://my.opera.com/annaraj/blog/2006/11/20/the-freebsd-accident Once again I am very sorry! Best regards, Anna On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:43:31 +0100, Bakul Shah wrote: > "Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu" writes: >> "Anna Rajsman" wrote: >> > We would like to ask you if you would like to distribute the >> > Opera browser with your OS? Or maybe you are doing it already? >> > Would you like to sign a distribution agreement with Opera? >> >> Opera is in our ports framework, both the native version and the linux >> version (both maintainers CC'ed). I don't know offhand if we distribute >> the binaries on our CD images; from reading the licence I don't see the >> any requirement to have a signed agreement for this, but if this is not >> the case please let me know. >> >> I am using Opera as my primary browser since v3 or something, but I am >> a little disappointed the the problems we're seeing on FreeBSD are >> rarely addressed. And indeed the binaries you're producing are for >> FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x while we will release 6.2 in a month. > > Speaking as a very happy Opera user, anything we can do to > improve our (FreeBSD's) relationship with Opera is a huge win > for us both. If it takes a signed agreement to make that > relationship "official", I am all for it. Also, I hope that > will result in improved support for the FreeBSD version of > Opera and in turn we can provide testing, feedback, etc. to > Opera. > > For me firefox-2.0 is still nowhere near as good as Opera and > I'd like to see Opera get even better! Also, on FreeBSD the > FreeBSD version uses less resources than the linux version. > > More generally I think we ought to get into such agreements > with more companies. Particularly companies like Adobe as > Flash is getting more and more pervasive (I understand that > moving big comapnies can be very hard which is why we should > first embrace as many smaller companies as we can and loudly > proclaim such agreements on www.freebsd.org). -- Anna Rajsman, Marketing and Sales Assistant Tel: +47 2416 4354, mailto:Anna.Rajsman@opera.com Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com