Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom?

An anonymous reader writes "According to a press release from Opera Software ASA, they have settled legal claims with an international corporation resulting in payment to Opera of net USD 12.75 million. The interesting bit is that the international corporation is unknown. Dagbladet speculates that Microsoft is paying up. They reason it has something to do with this."

Thee Tenors?

[dominick]

I believe it's a settlement with the three tenors. Hardy har har!

*Lame joke alert*

[foidulus]

Maybe it is the random that the phantom of the Opera demanded!
This has been a test of the lame joke broadcast system, this is only a test, in the event of a real lame joke, Cowboy Neal's name would have been mentioned, thank you for your time.

Slashdotted - pay up

[GatorMan]

In related news, OSDN/Slashdot to pay 'cost of loss' for the disrepectful way in which, after posting a link to Opera's site, the server melted in less than 8 comments.

Simple trick to kill Opera

[vijaya_chandra]

MS might not be able to kill opera but OSDN get

How!?!

Just get opera.com /.ed every alternate day
they'd end up paying their yearly profits for the monthly internet bill

Re:Great

[Sheepdot]

..as opposed to the browser (internet explorer) with no paying customers but a streamlined interface.

So streamlined and easy to use that it installs all sorts of fun tools without any of those silly, annoying, installation confirmation steps.

No, it's a settlement with Oprah Winfrey

[AtariAmarok]

No, it's a settlement with Oprah Winfrey. If the googol guys can sue Google....

Re:Translated Text from dagbladet.no

[Anonymous Coward]

In the settlement we do not give away any rights concering our products, and we shall continue making good products, says Lie.

Anyone else have trouble trusting that guy?

As an Opera zelot...

[Cyno01]

let me be the first to say...

BORK!

Totally offtopic

[totatis]

Ok, this is absolutly offtopic, but I couldn't resist.

The sig of parent is : "Les Francais sont des singes de capitulation qui mangent du fromage."
This can be translated (minus the grammar errors) in English by : "French people are cheese eating surrendering monkeys."

What is the problem with you guy ? How can this french racism be justified ?
Is that some type of knee-jerk reaction because you were insulted that the French governement had the balls to openly take the stake of 90% of the world population by opposing war in Irak ? Was it because the French governement (along with German, Russian ... governments) though that it was not clear Irak had WMP ? Looks like they were right.
Or are you just trying to show your complete lack of any notion of History, Humanity, toughfullness, rightfulness and veracity ?
Or maybe you cut and pasted a sentence you don't understand ? That seems unlikely.

Now, about the new fashion of describing French as cowardly, may I remember you that France got defeated by German army, the most powerful one at that time, which also defeated all Europe ? Do I need to remember you that Russia was a way more efficent combattant of Germany than the US ? Do I also remember you that the USA got smacked by Vietnam, Somalia ..., which were certainly not great powers, just random people fighting for their freedom ?

This kind of attitude only shows the world that the US has quite a number of ignorant, infantile and downright people in it. Happily, I know that there also are a lot of informed and insightful people in the USA, but, much to my dismay, those intelligent people seem to be in minority. This is very sad.

I remember seeing a few days ago on Slashdot a Brit defending France (a Brit defending France !) that very accuratly reminded the few arrogant and stupid American here that French men died to help the US become independent. Those French men died to help you get rid of the Brit, in the name of Freedom. Freedom that once upon a time was the characteristic of two countries : France and USA.

How come Bush, or should I say his neo-con silt, has be able to make you forgive about the long frienship that existed between France and the USA ? How can a few bonehead, who lied to the US population and to the world, make you forget ? Didn't you learn History and Geography in school ? Or are you now taught that what is not American is evil if it doesn't share all the ideas of your President ?

I know that there are a lot of informed, intelligent people here on Slashdot from all over the world (France and USA included), and I am shocked that someone can make such stupid and racist rant his sig. I was delighted that a Brit took the time to make points against such racist rants, but I fear that too many people do not try to educate the few stupid racist left. Or maybe I am an utopist, and maybe I should learn that there are people who will never be educated, who will never look at History, and who prefer baseless racism to intelligent criticism of their government's actions.

This is very sad that such sigs can exist on Slashdot without raising more than eyebrows. And I fear that stupid people such as parents are voters in the most powerful country in the World. Such power ought to be in hands of responsible people, not stupid and arrogant racists.

Re:Great

[h4rm0ny]

Can't you just create a link to... oh, yes... sorry.

*ahem*

I love Linux.