many of you have already heard about the acquisition

[rone]

I have little to say about it, so i'll just let the head simian at Adobe say it all.

"After 9/11, we both realised that being enemies didn't make sense," Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said in a conference call on Monday, referring to his discussions with Macromedia's then-CEO Rob Burgess.

As you can imagine, Bruce Chizen is very high on my list for the coveted 2005 Asshole of the Year award.

Comments

[mskala.livejournal.com]

I'm confused - who is calling whom a terrorist here?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Adobe, as near as i can tell, is run by Americans; Macromedia is run by Canadians. Take a wild guess.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I love you like the sweaty, armed and naked brother I never had, but are you sure you want this post world-readable?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I thought about it for a while before i posted it. I toned it down. I think i'm good.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I think he means Adobe is the Coalition of the Willing, and Macromedia is Iraq.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

I think he's a soundbyte whore that needs to be beaten.
:)

[paracelsvs.livejournal.com]

"Bitten", surely?

Memories

[(Anonymous)]

On this occasion I would like to bring this Kodak moment back to your memory in the form of Bash.org Quote #15689 (http://bash.org/?15689).


<rone> OH BY THE WAY WE'RE BEING ACQUIRED. AGAIN.
<rone> hey, at least we didn't merge with tab.net
<PetrDoubt> Yes, we did.
<PetrDoubt> Verio owns tabnet.
<rone> o fuck


Thib ;-)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was a classic moment...

Suck is a wheel that goes round and round, eh?

[merde.livejournal.com]

"After 9/11, we both realised that being enemies didn't make sense,"

wow. just wow. i am in awe of this guy. i mean, i make some pretty tasteless jokes, but this guy has me beat all to hell.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord. Surely it's legal to beat someone with baseball bats for saying something like that?

I for one welcome our new whorebot overlords.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

But hey, at least the next version of the AcroShockFlash plugin will be 3 terabytes, take an hour to load, and will bug you for an upgrade every 10 seconds!

Re: I for one welcome our new whorebot overlords.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

I take no joy in noting that this prediction basically turned out to be 100% accurate.

Well, maybe a little joy.

[huaman.livejournal.com]

Adobe *hack*spit*cough* bastard pdf-pushers.

[vspope.livejournal.com]

"After 9/11, we both realised that being enemies didn't make sense," Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said...

What the HOLY SCREECHING FUCK.

I don't know that it can top the police spokesman who said "We're all nervous after 9/11" to explain why they arrested a guy who tried to pay a debt at Best Buy with a stack of $2 bills, but it's right up there in the competition.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

Wow. Really puts things in perspective.

Because of 9/11, we can look forward to Flashistrator Reader. Thanks al Qaeda!

-- Schwa ---

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

The UK satirical magazine, Private Eye run a section called "Warballs", in which they quote gratuitous and inapprpriate references to 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq. Based on their offerings (although the current edition didn't have any entries), quotes like the above gem are not nearly as rare as they should be.

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

Nobody expects the terrorist-related acquisition.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Our two chief weapons are fonts and PostScript and bloatware! Our THREE chief weapons...