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Maybe the same reason why Google keeps Firefox alive - to be able to show there is no monopoly in some category of software.

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Is it really in Google's control whether or not Firefox lives? The only connection Firefox has seems to be that Google is one of its sponsors in exchange of being its primary search engine. I don't think they'd go that far as to intentionally denying Firefox users access to their sites even if they wanted, because that'd immediately draw some lawsuits.

> I don't think they'd go that far as to intentionally denying Firefox users access to their sites even if they wanted, because that'd immediately draw some lawsuits.

This already happened, some sites wouldn't work in Firefox unless Firefox had the Chrome user agent string.

Also who is going to sue them? Firefox? That's like kicking yourself in the balls.

Does Adobe have any products that compete with Blender directly?

Dimension could be seen as competition

I'm not sure how much of it overlaps with Blender and how much of it is complementary to Blender.

But Adobe recently acquired Allegorithmic and their 3D texture tool Substance.

https://www.substance3d.com/

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/adobe-acquires-allegorithm...

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