While Aldus Freehand was still ahead of Adobe Illustrator, we had FutureSplash Animator installed and GoLive CyberStudio. All of those tools been purchased by Adobe later, and shut down in their interest.
We focussed on Aldus After Effects for a while, when one day a developer-version crossed our data path and we took the opportunity to see the roots of PC based image editing. It was a Photoshop 0.91 with John Knoll responsible for the initial idea and the first concepts. His brother Thomas Knoll been the first credited Developer in the start splash window for years. John immediately became one of our Gurus.
Later we learned about his job for Lucas Film Visual- & Special Effects Company: ILM aka Industrial Light and Magic — impressive! Yes, our dinosaur was a FanBoy back then, but time goes by like Up-Dates.
Photoshop 6.0 was already a standard in the print industry and for Adobe’s Research & Development department there wasn’t much to fall behind. Corel wasn’t a serious competitor for them, just like Serif, Quark or Viva. Even when later their Up-Dates felt like maintenance just like tech press reports hailing Photoshop, the license fees been a fucking lot bucks for 20 years on multiple computers. Obviously, for the british news media outlet “the guardian” only intellectual prostitutes are able to publish shitty piece of commercial propaganda like liked here.
The only Free (of charge) Software they mentioned was shitty like the guardian, or free like Windows Paint and Apple OS-X preview. That was in fact not just stupid of them, but a list of cold lies written by the hands of capitalism. That’s why we illustrated the editor in chief of The New York Times – John Swinton. The intense relationship with Adobe came finally to an end when they changed Product Philosophy completely. We never had an open-(source) relationship before, but Inkscape offered a Freedom as Vector Illustration Software that was very seductive. Next moment we fall in love with…
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