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My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Re: My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Post by hkmurakami »

magclock wrote: post #23
hkmurakami wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might be because there's definitely an element of "the court of public opinion" for these two consumer product companies (and given Opera's stance, OP must feel some sense of loyalty/responsibility to defending Mozilla's name and public image) edit: Correction by magclock. Mozilla (so far) isn't directly involved in the suit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5629534

One consumer product company and one one-man consulting company. Mozilla is not a part of this, according to the articles.

Thanks for the correction; I've added the fix to my parent comment :)

Re: My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Post by baby »

crummy wrote: post #24

Now let's hear Opera's side of the story.

This is the wisest thing to do. We have no idea what's really happening and this blog post doesn't really tell much (and it shouldn't if he doesn't want to give too much information to his now enemies' layers).

Re: My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Post by magclock »

malgorithms wrote: post #8

I wish I knew someone who used Opera so I could ask them to start boycotting it.

Hey Chris, good to know for any consulting companies (like the OP's) that okcupid/IAC might want to hire! It's nice that you're not so concerned about trade secrets!

Re: My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Post by w1ntermute »

suyash wrote: post #16
malgorithms wrote: post #8

I wish I knew someone who used Opera so I could ask them to start boycotting it.

You can still do it, translate this blog post in Chinese and post it on Weibo. Opera Mobile is big in asia.

Or translate it into Russian. A lot of former Soviet bloc countries have high usage of Opera.

Re: My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

suyash wrote: post #16
malgorithms wrote: post #8

I wish I knew someone who used Opera so I could ask them to start boycotting it.

You can still do it, translate this blog post in Chinese and post it on Weibo. Opera Mobile is big in asia.

Really? This is quite news to me; I don't think many people are still stuck with feature phones on China Mobile, at least in the big cities.

Re: My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Post by malgorithms »

magclock wrote: post #36
malgorithms wrote: post #8

I wish I knew someone who used Opera so I could ask them to start boycotting it.

Hey Chris, good to know for any consulting companies (like the OP's) that okcupid/IAC might want to hire! It's nice that you're not so concerned about trade secrets!

I can assure you I'd never sue someone for stealing trade secrets. Whatever "trade secrets" means in software, anyway.

Re: My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me

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Post by hkmurakami »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #38
suyash wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can still do it, translate this blog post in Chinese and post it on Weibo. Opera Mobile is big in asia.

Really? This is quite news to me; I don't think many people are still stuck with feature phones on China Mobile, at least in the big cities.

IIRC the low-end smartphones made by ZTE/Huawei are quite popular.
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