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[edit] How do they make money?

It doesn't seem clear to me from the page, and it is a rather important question which should be answered on a wikipedia page about a company! All that I could tell is they get their money from Opera Mobile? Everything else seems to be free. Doesn't seem quite right that is their only source of income, or is it actually so? Mathmo ^Talk 12:17, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

The same way Mozilla corp makes money - by letting companies bid against each other for product placement in the browser. The fact that there's an Amazon search bar in the initial settings is no accident. Opera also does a lot of licensing to non-computer applications, like the Kocom wall mounts, or hotel peripherals, etc. And then there's $12 million settlement against Microsoft. Applesanity 18:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)