www.opera.com

I invite you to read this article on the subject of Opera.

http://www.linux.com/feature/139212

I believe mostly that the comments sum up exactly how I feel about the browser and make for the best, I feel, arguments in favor of the Opera browser. Especially those comments addressing the blind fanaticism of open source.

I hope you will read it with an open mind and not see this as an attack on your favorite browser's religion.

Okay, now I've got a better grasp on the intellect I'm dealing with, so I'll make this as easy for you to grasp as possible:

My position, as I'd thought I'd clearly illustrated yet you fail to grasp, is by the opening code, improvements can be made wherein they may not have been considered. Should Mozilla fold, the source could be resurrected, incorporated or forked into a new project. As you have the source code, you're free to explore.

Alternately, the simple example of FF & Mozilla's XUL technology being then “spun-off” allows the Songbird developers *and anyone else* to create their own application using an existing framework.

Your advocacy of, regardless of the brand, commercial closed code is dependant on the whims, innovations & failings of that corporate entity.  Business exist to make money. While the individual entity may fold, this would only place one *back* into the position of finding another commercial application, thus the cycle repeats. Your argument is based on voluntary subjugation.

In other words, when Brand X fails & you must go to Brand Y to get your paint by numbers set, I'll be enjoying expressing what I want.