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Re:Opera moves to WebKit by gcp on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @08:53AM (#5213030)
Compared to Google, Apple, Microsoft - it is important to understand that Opera is a small, very small, company.

That's true, but those companies also make much more products. Mozilla has significantly less employees than Opera.

What gives Google, Apple and Microsoft power is that they also own the platforms. (And now you'll understand why Firefox OS is a thing)

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Re:Opera moves to WebKit by ralfd on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @02:59PM (#5215303)
> Mozilla has significantly less employees than Opera

Hu, really? Would have thought the opposite as Mozilla gets 100 million dollars a year from Google.

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Re:Opera moves to WebKit by ianb on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @03:16PM (#5215401)
Wikipedia says that Opera has 777 employees as of a year ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software

That's a couple hundred more than Mozilla has now (after Mozilla added a lot of employees in the past few years). OTOH, the numbers are no longer that significantly different.

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Re:Opera moves to WebKit by mtgx on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @07:54PM (#5216871)
Mozilla should be asking more from Google. A lot more. Apple is charging them $1 billion per year, and they only have 50% more users than Mozilla.
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