An open source version of FreeHand?
Despite Adobe’s best efforts to entice artists to its Illustrator vector graphics program, there is a hard core that refuses to give up on FreeHand.
A new website called Free FreeHand has sprung up to encourage FreeHand users to band together in an effort to breathe new life into the app. Among the options they’re looking at is the release of FreeHand code and licensing to the open source community. If that doesn’t work, they’re considering a lawsuit.
As of this writing, 1,398 people have already signed up for the group’s newsletter.
For many years, FreeHand competed with Illustrator until Adobe acquired its parent company, Macromedia, in 2005. Read the full story at Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, development continues on Inkscape, a vector graphics program that has long been open source.
Posted Tuesday, September 8, 2009 in Open-source
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