Just a rumor at this point that neither side is confirming.

My first reaction was that this would be really bad news for developers. It's bad enough that we have to make things "work" in opera, it's another thing to make it look and work as good in opera as it does in mozilla and IE. My second thought was that it wouldn't be such a bad thing for us because IE would probably end up switching places with it in the browser war's. I bet if this happened, the order of browsers by most used would be Firefox, Opera, then Internet Explorer. Either way, things would get very interesting!

well said djkraz. For this very reason, the US political system does not have a dominant third party