Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Adobe buys Macromedia
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Mon Apr 18 20:39:43 2005
References: <BE89AAFB.13862%mark@rabinergroup.com> <BB49D3267E7CC00DDFE8024E@hindolveston.reid.org>
 
How did Adobe get hold of Photoshop? As far as I know, Photoshop was 
originally written
at Industrial Light and Magic; George Lucas' special fx unit. As far I 
know, John Knoll (who
I believe was the original author) is still at ILM.

feli

On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
>
> Adobe Systems was named after Adobe Creek, a tiny little rivulet 
> flowing between Palo Alto and Los Altos. Chuck Geschke's house 
> adjoined Adobe Creek at the time they were trying to think of a name.


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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT: Adobe buys Macromedia)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] OT: Adobe buys Macromedia)