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SM-Bot
31 Jan 2004, 2:25am
John Patrick, who was credited with bringing the Internet to IBM, has joined Web browser company Opera Software.

Patrick spent 35 years at IBM, during which he was part of the team that started the company's leasing business, launched IBM's ThinkPad brand, and was credited with introducing IBM to a new communications technology called the Internet. He was also a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994 and a senior member of standards body the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Straight_Man
1 Feb 2004, 5:23pm
Excellent news, if he is allowed to influence things. The only major weaknesses (IMHO) in Opera are in its Active-X handling, and how the emailling module local folder structuring is handled by default.

John.

ginipig
2 Feb 2004, 12:32am
Yep. That and multimedia playback (eg video streams etc) that require plugins from certain sites that refuse to accept Opera as a legitimate browser. Haven't seen any updates from 'em in a while :(