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Let me get this straight. Creating blends is now illegal thanks to Macromedia victory in court?

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From: Joseph Cincotta
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:36
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When I read this blurb on the web today about Macromedia "winning" its patent battle against Adobe today and reading about what exactly has Macromedia won in regards to the legal battle with Adobe. 

So, Adobe owes Macromedia 4.9 million dollars in damages and possibly an injunction will be issued against Adobe against the Illustrator 10 product. This means that Illustrator will no longer allow blends?! If that's the case, I'll stick to my legally purchased copy of Illustrator 9 that now has this "illegal" feature called "blends". I haven't purchased Illustrator 10...unfortunately and if they issue that injunction against the product...I have no intention of buying a crippled product with a court appointed illegal feature that I've been using in the past...unless mighty Adobe finds a way to reintroduce the feature of blends without tripping over Macromedia's "patent" or whatever the heck they're claiming they own.
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