Let's hope so. My reading so far is that Adobe is moving away from open standards and towards proprietary formats. Even in pdf, later versions of the format aren't documented.
I'm not sure Adobe has one day be interested in Open Source. Of cource they created or contributed to Open Format (XMP, DMG, SVG, PDF...) but i think this much a way to simplify their own implementation, and improve their support by compatibility. For example, Gimp plug-in for Exif access support more Camera than Photoshop. Does. And XMP is the answer that Adobe made : "we can read everything so use our Open format. "
Also, it seems likely that Freehand will be either discontinued or at least downplayed so as to not hurt Illustrator,
It isn't clear to me that Illustrator will be the outright winner: Freehand does have certain features/properties that the new Adobe will want, such as integration with Flash, and is more suitable for desktop-publishing tasks (as appropriate for authoring typical pdf files).
This may result in a combined product and a steep upgrade price.
Sure. But price is not our purpose, i think. And we have to be scared of people that are just looking for free (gratis) softwares.
(However, note that I've used neither Illustrator nor Freehand, nor for that matter any Adobe/Macromedia/Aldus product to my knowledge (other than a few minutes with PageMaker a few years ago).)
I used them a lot at work. These are of course very good tools but not free.
which means a lot of users will have to migrate. All this gives us a certain opportunity.
We can emphasize the importance of open standards.
And GPL softwares as access to diversity.
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