Opera&#x27;s main competitors are open-source projects. You are suggesting that they create another competitor right before putting the company up for sale, and I&#x27;m suggesting that they are unlikely to do that.<p>Yes, a different for-profit company <i>did</i> create an open-source browser project, but that was a rare situation in which the for-profit company dominated a very lucrative market (search) and the open-source project had the effect of undermining one of the few strategic advantages (namely, Internet Explorer&#x27;s usage share) enjoyed by their only serious competitor.<p>In other words, in certain situations it might make sense for a for-profit company to use an open-source project to take users away from a proprietary software product of one of its competitors if the competitor would have been able to use its control over the proprietary software product as a lever on consumer behavior in a huge and lucrative market. But those situations are rare and do not apply here.<p>Google&#x27;s open-sourcing Chromium resembles Russia&#x27;s &quot;scorched-earth policy&quot;: the move destroyed some of Google&#x27;s options or resources, but made sense because it simultaneously took those resources away from Google&#x27;s biggest threat. But the circumstances in which a scorched-earth policy make sense are rare and do not apply in Opera&#x27;s situation.