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It's about time. I hate to be one to advocate piracy, but this massive leak of source was something that we needed desperately.

It's illicit, but it will help free software and reverse engineering in a huge way. Adobe doesn't deserve to manipulate its users with CC like it's doing right now.

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Wait, so Adobe doesn't deserve to make decisions about how it wants to sell its products? I'm confused here - are you advocating that companies give up control over their own delivery mechanisms?

We can argue as to whether or not we like their products, value their products, or receive in return for payment value greater than or less than the price of their products, but it seems to odd to say they shouldn't be able to make a decision about how they choose to sell them?

Anything made resembling reimplementation of Adobe's stuff by anyone who sees this will be tainted. It would most likely leave not the individual developer open to legal actions but the entire group and project they were working with would be at risk.

You would have to be something of an idiot to look at this if you intend to have anyone ever look at anything you code in the future.

We can expect more 0-day exploits for Adobe Acrobat.

Good. Let it die. If anything, this will encourage people to move off of that horrid platform and onto something different. There's no excuse to be using Acrobat anymore; there are dozens of better solutions for PDF doctoring and creation.

And for those who are using Reader, well, they were in for it.

I suspect not only Acrobat but it might be any PDF reader.

I don't understand. Aren't there open source PDF readers out there already, that has had its code checked and audited?

You mean more pop-ups for updates that could very well be malicious?

Wonderful.

Manipulate? They're a business who is making big boy business decisions. If you don't like their products don't purchase them. They don't have a monopoly, they simply have good products.

>>>> They don't have a monopoly.

This is pretty debatable considering the options which are currently available to consumers. Yes, they have some competition, but it's hardly putting a dent in their bottom line.

It's comparable to the New York Yankees playing in a Juco league. Sure they have "Competition" in the form of other teams, but are those teams really in their league? No.

No its comparable to saying Apple has a monopoly because Android et. al are hardly putting a dent in Apple's bottom line.

Is your argument for Adobe monopoly really that "they make really good products and no one comes close to them in quality?" Because if so, then good on Adobe for making good products.

Macromedia were the last decent competitor in the 2D design space, then Adobe bought them. I was sad to see it happen, and I can see Photoshop has only gotten more bloated and nonsensical as time goes on.

I hope some bold entrepreneur brings out some software to seriously compete with Creative Suite because the market sorely needs it.

Internet hippies are like locust, except they want their data private.

Any OSS project would be killed dead by the use of stolen source code. There's a reason projects like Wine and ReactOS have to be so careful you know.

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