Re: Adobe buys Macromedia? 2005-04-18 - By Bob Dawson
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A slight correction. Andrew is absolutely right: Adobe did buyout
Aldus, but the original developers of FreeHand, who still owned the
rights, wouldn't sell it to Adobe; they sold to Macromedia instead.
Sorry for my earlier misinformation.
Bob Dawson
--- In Carrara@(protected), "Bob Dawson" <dawsonbob@(protected)> wrote:
>
> When Aldus--makers of FreeHand and Pagemaker (wich, incidentally,
> share a lot of code)--was going out of business, they sold FreeHand to
> Macromedia and Pagemaker to Adobe.
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> Bob Dawson
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> --- In Carrara@(protected), Mike Perkins <mperkins37@(protected)> wrote:
> > Freehand used to be Aldus Corp, not Adobe. Unless adobe bought aldus.
> > On Apr 18, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Liondream@(protected) wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The interesting thing too re Illustrator/Freehand is that I think
> > > Freehand started out as an adobe product before macromedia
bought it
> > > from them way back when.
> > >
> > > I don't know that GoLive will be history... maybe they'll market
> it as
> > > a home product.
> > >
> > > Well... if Macromedia was having enough trouble so that they became
> > > purchase-able, then better Adobe than say Corel - imo.
> > >
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