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Agreed, and I know Opera is Chinese-owned, but Opera's web site still lists their headquarters as Norway. Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company, with
by doctor_radium 2y ago
Agreed, and I know Opera is Chinese-owned, but Opera's web site still lists their headquarters as Norway. Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company, with some safeguards against abuse? Not sure if any EU laws might also come into play.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company No. It's a Chinese company with an office in Oslo (in addition to China) [1]. Had they run it as an independent subsidiary there might have been a claim that it remains Norwegian. But they haven't and so it isn't. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)#Acquisition_and_second_IPO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)#Acquisition_an...
- llamaimperative 2y agoI think foreign intelligence services are perfectly comfortable "navigating" laws. Obviously every company is vulnerable to this, but it sure is preferable not to have ownership concentrated in a country where all corporations are de facto extensions of the state itself.