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[–] Gordam [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I don't have any privileged information on this bit, so I'm both free to say what I know here, but also don't take this as gospel (add to that I haven't been there for quite some time)

This was a decision made by the new management after Jon S. von Tetzchner left (he didn't leave by his own choice, by the way. It was a decision made by the board). Lars Boilesen is the new CEO and while he's a nice guy, he has a very different perspective on the business plan than Tetzchner. Opera is getting much more involved with advertising for one. They're using the knowhow of the browser and surrounding technology to support that business, for instance the compression that happens on mobile devices when you use Turbo, use some parts of the engine to read the full webpage and strip away a lot of clutter (that would be wasted bandwith). Opera also sell services to carriers, and I'm pretty sure I can't say which, but I have written code to read and summarize logs for Turbos performance for a large US carrier.