The End of Computer Graphics Innovation

This surely spells the end of innovation in the computer graphics and web design segment of computing. With such an incredible lock on both of these critical content creation markets, Adobe will be able to name their price and become the new standards-setter for the web. As we have seen time and time again, such a large company is incapable of doing anything innovative, especially in a case like this where there will be no effective competition. Watch as a new generation of proprietary plugins, undoubtedly involving an unholy union of PDF and Flash, are integrated more than ever before in the tools most content creators use to build the web.

This massive merger makes improving the GIMP and web creation tools like NVU more important than ever before, as they have the potential to be the only alternatives to Adobe having total control of the future of the internet.