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• What will this mean for Macromedia Flash player for Linux. Will Adobe find it in their best interest to continue developing these plugins for Linux? Or will all us nerds have to view the web with a good chunk missing out of the experience?

  Posted by: shortname on April 18, 2005 at 2:54 AM

• So, Adobe bought Macromedia for a few bil. As in billion.

  Interesting way to start your week if you work in creative digital arts. How will this affect our respective fields? As a web designer, flash designer, and sometimes print designer, this is either good or bad news for me — but it's definitly news that will affect my future. Let's hope that it's going to mean lower prices and better products. And, finally... the bloody, bitter end of GoLive.

  I use quite a bit of Adobe software now:

  Photoshop
  Illustrator
  InDesign
  Acrobat
  Flash
  Dreamweaver

  How did owners of stock in either/both of these companies fare?

  Is this now a monopoly?

  Posted by: benandcam on April 18, 2005 at 11:57 AM

• won't adobe/macr need to sell off some of their tools like fireworks, livemotion, etc... when adobe bought aldus they had to sell off freehand...at least that's what i heard.
  

  Posted by: philliptorrone on April 18, 2005 at 12:57 PM

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