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Weblog:   Open Source and the Obligation to Recycle
Subject:   Example: Aldus Intellidraw
Date:   2004-02-29 16:46:57
From:   carraj
Intellidraw was an excellent drawing program developed by Aldus for both Mac OS and Windows. When Aldus was acquired by Adobe, the product was killed. If the source code had been put in the public domain (given that Adobe had no interest in furher developing it, or even selling licenses to executables), we would now have an excellent, freely-available drawing program (far more advanced than Xfig). Even so, it would still not have competed with Adobe Illustrator -- it wouldn't have compromised sales greatly.