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WHY?!?! Why, God, oh WHY!

Adobe has long lost any luster it might have had, and has descended into outsourced maintenance-ware. An acquisition like this would be about as smart as Intel acquiring Mc(rap)fee...

EDIT: aCquisition.

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Well, to be fair, maybe Flash for OS X would actually improve. On the other hand, Flash for Linux might meet with an unfortunate accident.

50-100% processor usage isn't already an unfortunate accident?

Look on the bright side- it doesn't yet melt your CPU. Under MS's guiding hand, I'm sure it would figure out how.

I just don't get that. It's not like MS have the superior computer scientists and the rest of us are little children. Adobe has the money to pay people to solve those problems. The Flash situation on Mac and Linux is just ridiculous.

Yes, but Adobe obviously elects not to pay people to solve those problems. The question, then, becomes 'why'.

Unless they kill off the mac version of the creative suite, that would be a huge hit for Apple.

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