Opera Software ASA’s product is Opera Web Browser. Facebook wouldn’t buy Opera t... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

deno on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe.

Opera Software ASA’s product is Opera Web Browser. Facebook wouldn’t buy Opera to continue making money on licensing. And we know that Facebook uses Open Source model for developing things they don’t profit directly from[1]. It also makes everyone more easy about the privacy issues etc. The question really is, why wouldn’t they open source it? The have plenty to benefit from and nothing to lose.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/

gcp on May 25, 2012 [–]

Facebook wouldn’t buy Opera to continue making money on licensing.

Opera makes quite some money on advertising, by channeling traffic into Google.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact