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Actually, Opera missed a trick here. They should have asked the supplier to fix the offending software during the evaluation period, thereby chipping away at th
by abdulhaq 17y ago
Actually, Opera missed a trick here. They should have asked the supplier to fix the offending software during the evaluation period, thereby chipping away at the small mountain of similar admin interfaces/websites that fail when presented with Opera browser. They might then have further benefited from the supplier's hardware if it had been the best value.
- dexen 17y agoI can't help but wonder why the parent post, insightful and well-worded, is upvoted significantly less than the post starting with `I hate these sorts of things...' It's not like I hate these sorts of things so much, but still...
- biohacker42 17y agoUnfortunately the wayback machine does not archive the comments: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.ycombinator.com http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.ycombinator.com It would be interesting to run something like the stupid filter on comments rated > x for all comments today and for all comments not long after Startup News was renamed Hacker News. I'm curious to see if the totality of comments would show a significant difference in the stupid score as determined by a simple bayesian filter.
- brown9-2 17y agoWell, you are missing his point. Opera could have used this opportunity to get the "major hardware supplier" to add Opera support to their admin tool. Instead of simply being insulted by the company's software, they could have basically bought support for their product from this "major hardware supplier" for free.
- mrduncan 17y agoIt's also possible that their move caused that supplier to add support after the incident so that such a thing doesn't happen again.
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- jeroen 17y agoThey could even have offered the supplier to help fix the software. Should be an easy job for one of their engineers.