It's not altruistic, its stripping the browser down to its most basic essence. It is the core functionality. Why do we humans have such a hard time acknowledging an abstract thing without dirtying it with our stupid ambitions?

Nothing good is viable with the current tech "economy", where software is an endless death-march of feature-bloat to justify the unlimited (also known as cancerous) growth required by venture capital or public markets.

But I bet a couple guys could pull off an Opera 2.0 and make a nice living for themselves. You only need a couple thousand paying users at a very modest subscription fee to cover a couple of developers' salaries