Dont know Tjohn, it stymies the competition and levels the playing field for them (Adobe). Again, like Microsoft did to Netscape, which I thought was the better browser at the time. Just knocks them out of the market. Adobe PhotoShop started as a McIntosh program in 90, got into Windows in 93. Face stiff competition from Aldus PhotoStyler. Adobe merged with Aldus in 94 and squashed PhotoStyler in late 94, I read somewhere that they thought it was redundant with Photoshop, but they kept its technology. Adobe just might see Freehand redundant to Illustrator and whack them off the market. It might certainly keep Flash due to its proliferation throughout the web.