More fuel for the Adobe vs. FreeHand fire

[GenoaJenn]

Check out what Adobe is doing to there own customers who own the CS5 and CS 5.5 suites:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... onomyId=85

[FFH Mark]

Reading the 50+ comments to the article was revealing, and I see that Adobe did issue this notice:

"We are in the process of resolving the vulnerabilities addressed in these Security Bulletins in Adobe Illustrator CS5.x, Adobe Photoshop CS5.x (12.x) and Adobe Flash Professional CS5.x, and will update the respective Security Bulletins once the patches are available."

[GenoaJenn]

Wow! When I first saw it, there were only 3 comments...

[GenoaJenn]

This comment shows that Adobe has a history of "buying out" the competition and scraping the software:

on Adobe: Pay upgrade price to patch critical bugs last week
This gos back even further.....many,. "many" moons ago there was a program called FontMonger. It was a font editing tool that ran circles around anything that Adobe had and for a small fraction of the cost.
Adobe couldn't put them out of business any other way, so they bought the company, and let all support (which consisted only of acknowledging that they now owned the product) die out unannounced within a year.

Looks like the lawyers can use info like this to persuade the court that Adobe is monopolizing software of lots of companies, not just FreeHand.

I'm thinking Adobe is like a "Death Dealer" for small software companies that have similar apps.