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[Christopher Bort]

On 06/28/07 01:14, joar at joar.com (j o a r) wrote:

>On 28 jun 2007, at 09.12, Matt Johnston wrote:
>
>>Balance has been restored to the universe.
>
>If by balance you mean monopoly...
>
>Adobe and Macromedia merging is like ATI and Nvidia merging, or Intel
>and AMD merging, etc. I think it is really, really, bad for the
>industry that Adobe was allowed to purchase Macromedia.
>
>The only positive thing that could come out of this is that it 
>opens the door for new startups, like Pixelmator.

And then, if history is any sort of guide, (if|when) Pixelmator 
becomes successful enough to threaten market share, it will be 
duely gobbled up by Adobe or one of the other big carnivores and 
bloatware will ensue. But I try to not be cynical about these things.

-- 
Christopher Bort
<topher at thehundredacre.net>
<http://www.thehundredacre.net/>