This has nothing to do with piracy, which all software companies have to cope with and include in their cost of doing business.
This has EVERYTHING to do with Adobe spending 1.8 billion with a B on a questionable acquisition of a spyware company called Omniture. And of trying to push PDF and Flash [yes, Flash] on the US Gov't. And of the offshoring of more American jobs.
Motoko is correct from the 2000s on when Adobe killed off Pagemaker, Framemaker, and etc. Adobe ceased to be a software company and just became a 'merger & acquisition, technonology destruction company' --because MBAs & bean counters worry more about business ratios than innovation. #layoffs
@Motoko Kusanagi: Nah. Autodesk is the Microsoft of graphic design. They bought the rights to the two definitive 3D graphics programs that are basically the same and sell them separately. #layoffs
11/14/09
This has EVERYTHING to do with Adobe spending 1.8 billion with a B on a questionable acquisition of a spyware company called Omniture. And of trying to push PDF and Flash [yes, Flash] on the US Gov't. And of the offshoring of more American jobs.
Motoko is correct from the 2000s on when Adobe killed off Pagemaker, Framemaker, and etc. Adobe ceased to be a software company and just became a 'merger & acquisition, technonology destruction company' --because MBAs & bean counters worry more about business ratios than innovation. #layoffs
11/11/09
It is the Microsoft of graphic design...stifling innovation and making life harder since the earliest years of personal computing. #layoffs
11/11/09
11/10/09