Opera’s CEO sells bullshit. Great work, man… You just reached the level of FUD and stupidity which until now was Microsoft’s domain.
I feel ashamed that company which has such great supporters (mostly in Poland) uses such nonesense in their black marketing campaign.
When they were releasing Opera 8, there was so much rumour about “upcoming huge marketing campaign”. Now, a few months later, we saw the trashy superman and a lot of black marketing.
My friends from Opera community tried to explain, that Superman was a part of campaign to show that Opera is cool and they do fun of marketing.
Yeah. Very funny. They focused on creating brand new comparsion sheets and black marketing for Firefox.
Hell, they are not talking at all about IE! They’re talking only about Firefox. Their CEO’s spend days on writing provements that Firefox is not free, not good, not modern, not easy to use, not felxible, and that all users its users are wrong and should switch ASAP to Opera. (optionally paying not to view the ad).
What’s next? You’ll start writing exploits for Firefox to prove that it’s less secure than Opera (And Opera is “100% bug free” mostly because secunia publishes security alerts for opera after they release fix).
Who you gona blame? Mozilla Foundation? You’re going to prove that Firefox is free because companies pay for it? Nonsense. Companies pay us for creating free browser. Free envoirment. If you want to join us, open your code. Move to OpenSource, share your code with us, and I can promise you that you’ll be donated to develop your browser in the same way we are.
Opera – where are you going? To war? You found yourself without any arguments about your browser, so you focused on denying features of another? It’s so stupid. It’s so rude, it’s so pathetic. I really thought that only Microsoft plays this ball…
update: Daniel Glazman is right. Tetzchner shouldn’t swim so much. He caught Absurdus Delirium…
9 replies on “Opera’s marketing.”
Even though your arguments are quite reliable, Opera’s better anyway. Face the facts. 🙂
hops: Yeah, “Face the facts”. Opera is just like Microsoft. The only difference is s/Get/Face/g in your propaganda. 😉
(Yep, that’s a provocation. But a justified one, I think ;))
I’m afraid that we will soon fighting not against IE but IE & Opera 😐
It was good browser but as we could see in many cases, products which development was managed by PR people went to the very low quality….
I meant Opera as a browser, not a company, Marcoos. And now I’m going on vacation. Have a happy summer 🙂
Their marketing is just incredible, if you go to
http://opera.com/products/desktop/awards/ and click on the PC World Class 2005 image you will be directed to the page of …2004, where they appeared more prominent. So is that just the recognition that they once had a good browser?
Gandalf, sit down and take a deep breath. Did I tell you that you reactions are some sort of hysterical? If Firefox is indeed wonderful, it will defend itself.
> Their CEO’s spend days on writing provements that Firefox is not free, not good, not modern, not easy to use, not felxible, and that all users its users are wrong and should switch ASAP to Opera. (optionally paying not to view the ad).
You’re reading too much between lines…
> Did I tell you that you reactions are some sort of hysterical?
Well.. not only mine then 😉 And believe me, you should not look for a problem in peoples reaction, but in source actions that cames before…
> You’re reading too much between lines…
Naah, really, Havaard told me that. 🙂
That’s why Opera 8 lost’s 0,1% last week in Poland. Great marketing, I can tell…
Opera has a good and polished UI. I think it is also quite faster than Firefox.
I can describe the features I like in Opera. Anyway, I wish if firefox would catch up with it very soon.