Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:02:06AM +0100, John Travis wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2001 13:12, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > (Where was the link?)
> > >
> > > IIRC, Opera is now free-as-in-beer, but it's still not free in the
> > > DFSG sense, which is a great shame; it would be great if it could
> > > go into Debian.
> > >
> > > Perhaps it could be distributed by Debian in non-free, though. I
> > > might have a look at its licence.
> >
> > Will the sources be available?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Kerstin
>
>
> I don't see that happening unless Opera runs out of cash and goes
> under. I believe they meant the same sense of "free" as the windows
> version when it hit 5.01. It was no longer an evaluation period deal.
> But the "free" version displayed adds (although not terribly
> obtrusive). But I would *love* it if it did go open source. 5.02 for
> windows is probably the fastest browser I have ever used (IE for the
> mac is actually pretty nice too). The idea of blocking the adds is
> interesting. Although they could (and maybe have) thrown in a check to
> make sure they are being displayed properly in order to function.
>
It may be possible to use a special iptables firewall filter rule on the
2.4 kernels to try and block the browser fetching emails from wherever
it fetches them from. One assumes that opera will continually try to
fetch the ads from a specific server (which may or may not forward it to
another ad server), so blocking that ip may well work. Just a thought.
Matthew
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