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Re:Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. by deno on Friday May 25, 2012 @11:57AM (#4024014)
> I have my doubts that Facebook would pay top dollar just to open source the software.

They wouldn’t buy it just to open source it. Facebook will buy Opera for its own strategic reasons, and they will open source it only because it’s the optimal model for them to develop this kind of project.

They already open source bunch of stuff. They have the culture and the know-how.

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Re:Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. by SkyMarshal on Friday May 25, 2012 @01:08PM (#4024433)
> and they will open source it only because it’s the optimal model for them to develop this kind of project.

Why would that be? Opera already has a very optimal closed source development model.

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Re:Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. by deno on Friday May 25, 2012 @01:17PM (#4024475)
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/

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Re:Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. by gcp on Friday May 25, 2012 @02:00PM (#4024689)
Facebook wouldn’t buy Opera to continue making money on licensing.

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

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