"Well, my point was that they should have been allowed to acquire Flash, but not the entire portfolio of products.

Illustration: Freehand vs Illustrator. Now only Illustrator."

I can speak from years professional experience on the matter of

freehand verses Illustrator,

For years freehand was a better overali vector art program

but then the Illustrator team at adobe really improved Illustrators text handling tools

,its ability to create color separations for offset printing as well as improving its integration with the rest of the Adobe suite including the emerging Quark killer, Adobe indesign.

while I dont neccessarily like the idea of the major industry standard Creative tools being under one or two companies

 

I do understand their business decision to kill off titles in their product lines that compete Directly with each other as Autodesk did with SoftimageXSI 

"Raster: Photoshop vs Fireworks. Now only Photoshop"

Fire works was originally designed to create low bandwidth

web content for the "Dial-Up" Era of the internet

with most its functions available in photoshop  it was, IMHO,

obsolete. 

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