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I don't know if anyone has mentioned one potential reason: Opera is the only browser which is clearly not made in the USA. For countries which aren't big fans o

by ivix 14y ago

I don't know if anyone has mentioned one potential reason: Opera is the only browser which is clearly not made in the USA. For countries which aren't big fans of the US, this could have made quite a difference.

cromulent 14y ago
It might be interesting to see what happens in Russia with the recently released Yandex browser. After 3 weeks it had 1.8% market share, according to Wikipedia.
- bla2 14y ago
  Since Yandex browser is for the most part Chromium, it's made in the US too.
  - cromulent 14y ago
    Depends what you mean by "made". I'm not sure that you can say that open-source projects like Chromium, Webkit, KHTML etc are "made in the US".
Ingaz 14y ago
It does not make a difference. And you're wrong if you think that Belarus people transfer Lukashenko opinions about USA on software/hardware. Disclosure: I am Russian, we opened a filial in Minsk this year. Belarus have a lot of skilled programmers. Not code monkeys, a lot of them high qualified, very opinionated. A lot of them have experience in international firms. I suppose you've heard about World of Tanks. The same goes for Kiev/Ukraine programmers, although I did not have experience with them.