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Well I can't speak about Motorola but the stock price of ADBE of late suggests pretty strongly otherwise for a dying company.

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Adobe is the monopoly in the desktop graphics tool market. Not sure why no VC targets it at this moment, which does seem like a slow dinosaur to attack on.

"Once open-source gets good enough, you'd be crazy to compete with it." -Larry Ellison

Any startup that sets out to recreate Photoshop would also compete with GIMP and Pixelmator.

Pixelmator's proprietary, and can't run on non OS X ATM due to reliance on, IIRC, CoreGraphics or similar. If they recreated those libraries on other platforms they may have a PS competitor.

GIMP is poor quality.

Patents.

right.

But barely no one likes Adobe flash. Their software quality is getting lower and lower. Too much bureaucracy always shown in these companies.

Ok, now I feel that you are just being racist. This is like clutching at the thinnest of straws.

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