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Hello. This is my #Introduction.
I have been working with Web technologies since 1992. I have co-founded two browser companies, Opera Software and Vivaldi Technologies. I was CEO at Opera and I am CEO at Vivaldi.
I am a strong proponent of open standards. I believe in building feature rich products that can be adapted to the needs of users without collecting information about usage. I believe no company has the right to profile their users.
jon@vivaldi.net
Standard open minus the UI of your product. Vivaldi's corporate image defense is not convincing especially when the competition copies your features and improves them.
I invite you to really make all your software opensource, I hope that will happen someday.
#linux #foss #vivaldi #browser
@jon Welcome to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse !
@jon Edit to fix my spelling mistake on Mastodon. 
Nice to meet you!
@jon Hi Jon, nice to meet you. I am an English-Polish translator, have been working in the field for 30 years, 2/3 of it using CAT (Computer Aided Translation) software. I respect your approach to open standards, Vivaldi has been my browser of choice for quite a long time, it quickly replaced Firefox which I long considered untouchable and indispensable. Hope you'll be able to bear the open standards flag for many years to come.
#Introduction
@jon Great to see you on Mastodon!
@sajalghosh , thank you for your kind words. What do you mean by TTS?
@jon @sajalghosh Common usage is "Text to speech", with STT being "Speech to text" and so on.
@jon I mean... welcome!
@jon @sajalghosh Alt text is a big deal round here. It's part of the vibe.
Hi @jon
Sorry for not clarifying. I love the "Read Aloud" feature of MS Edge. The voice sounds more natural than any other free "Text to Speech" engines. I particularly love this feature because as a non-native English speaker, it helps me read faster and make me feel more comfortable. Reading newspapers, long articles / blogs is much more comfortable with this feature. In addition, combined with and ePub add on, I also read ebooks with MS Edge.
@sajalghosh , thanks for the clarification. Will have a look.
@jon@social.vivaldi.net hello and welcome to the Fediverse
@jon wow thank you for your work and wellcome to the fediverse.
@jon welcome to you!
𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝕬𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖙 You are a pioneer in the development of innovative web browsers.
You are a superhero without a cape, protect the privacy of us users and stand up for an open and free web.
You are an inspiration to many people. Not least because of you, I am a professional developer myself.
Thank you for your passion and commitment. 
@jon Welcome to the Fediverse
@jon pls unban from ur instance ty boss <3
For a long while now word on the street is Opera became a kind of Chinese spyware. What is your opinion about that?