[thechat] Adobe to buy Macromedia

[Chris Spruck]

This just in - "Adobe to buy Macromedia".

And my own cranky sub-headline - "Web reaches previously unfathomable level of suck". 

I can see it now - sites everywhere will be blind-linking to 100 meg PDFs chock full of embedded crap-Flash. Can you tell I've had nothing but problems with both? I'm definitely not a fan.

Still subject to regulatory and shareholder approval, but:
http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2005/adobe_macromedia.html

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