<story><title>Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/29/opera-claims-former-employee-gave-away-trade-secrets-to-mozilla-sues-him-for-3-4m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this.&lt;p&gt;Either way, an idea for a browser feature is hardly a huge industrial secret - Webkit, Blink and Gecko have near-parity on features, and are competing more on speed. How would this stand up in court?&lt;p&gt;Neither Google nor Opera have anything to gain from this - what could be the economic rationale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>I don&apos;t think switch to Google&apos;s engine is the cause, it&apos;s rather another symptom of the same thing — after Jon von Tetzchner has left Opera Software has changed their priorities.&lt;p&gt;Change of engine, downsizing (and old-time developers fleeing the company), and now the lawsuit to me indicate that Opera Software now favors profits over preserving company&apos;s culture, image and web standards influence.&lt;p&gt;Hippies have left, suits have taken over.</text></comment>
<story><title>Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/29/opera-claims-former-employee-gave-away-trade-secrets-to-mozilla-sues-him-for-3-4m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this.&lt;p&gt;Either way, an idea for a browser feature is hardly a huge industrial secret - Webkit, Blink and Gecko have near-parity on features, and are competing more on speed. How would this stand up in court?&lt;p&gt;Neither Google nor Opera have anything to gain from this - what could be the economic rationale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurounijones</author><text>&quot;Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this.&quot;&lt;p&gt;These two things are not linked, stop trying to make it so.</text></comment>