Opera’s state-of-the-art web browser is going to be free from today. They removed the ad banner and the licensing fee, as those two seemed to be the main reasons that limited Opera’s acceptance. The company is still making revenues though. It started with an online party where you could grab a free key for the browser, but it seems the company understood that they never could rival Firefox with their current business model. It’ll certainly cost them in the short run, but if it spreads out enough and grabs a few % from IE, it could work. Since IE 7 beta is going public on December 7th, things finally got into motion.
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