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Ah yes, the beginnings of Opera, when they had a management that was interested in great technology; before it was exchanged for a management interested in profits.


Perhaps the alternate universe ending is "before it went bankrupt".


Nah, you can look at their financial reports that Opera 12 was still providing good profits on the desktop WHILE they were working on making Chromera 15: http://www.operasoftware.com/company/investors/finance

Once they were able to fire most of their dev staff though they made more money with the Chrome clone.




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