Update - Thanks to Daanish for posting a Yahoo! News story updating us on the status of the products. It looks like at least for now both are safe, but you have to wonder for how long. So for now, no worries. 
My first computer based cartography work was done on Freehand so this kinda makes me sad even though I don’t use Freehand anymore (our company uses Illustrator). Actually the last version of Freehand I used was version 5.5 on Macintosh so that pretty much dates me and is probably why Adobe is dropping Freehand. Also I’m sure many Dreamweaver users will be happy to hear that GoLive is going away also. I used to have GoLive Cyberstudio before Adobe bought the product and renamed it, but about the time that happened Visual Interdev came out so I just ended up using that instead.
courtesy GUIdebook
4 responses so far ↓
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Jeremy
// May 31, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I still have my educational version of Freehand and Fontographer. The only way to make a map. There used to be a GIS plugin for Freehand if I remember right…
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James Fee
// May 31, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Fontographer, that takes me back.
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Matt Eitrem
// Jun 1, 2006 at 6:55 am
I purchased Macromedia Studio 8 before the Adobe accusation. I wonder if they will bundle Illustrator in the next Studio (9)? Photoshop would also be nice. Who knows maybe they will do away with the Studio package all together. Maybe it would be best to buy CS2 and hope for integration of Dreamweaver. Anyone have a good site for insider info on Adobe?
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Daanish
// Jun 1, 2006 at 7:42 am
Hi James,
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
I’m not 100% on posting links, if I messed it up, could you fix it?
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