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

[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.