Comment Re:Opera is dead. (Score 1) 181
The best I can tell, they get zero revenue from it. The money comes from the codebase they license to various embedded vendors, like Nintendo, for example.
Nope. Opera gets plenty of revenue from the desktop version. Every time you do a Google search, Opera gets money. Multiply that by tens of millions, and you get a nice amount of cash. How about reading up on Opera's finances instead of speculating?
I really can't fathom what's the use of desktop Opera other than browsing porn or similar image-heavy galleries
It's because it has tons of useful features that other browsers just can't match.
I would only use it as a main browser if there was a paid version available, where the users had some input into the direction the development is taking.
What makes you think paying for it gives you more input into the direction of the development? While Opera was payware you hardly got to give any input at all, and most releases were secret until the final version was out. After they stopped charging they started releasing early public test versions and set up a blog to gather feedback on those.
So where you got the idea that you had more input when paying, I have no idea. It's clearly not true.