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Bingo! Adobe has a de facto monopoly on vector and bitmap editing software tools, and it would make total sense for this acquisition to be stopped by the government on that basis. "The government" in this case would be the DoJ's antitrust division headed by Jonathan Kanter [1]. Looks like the process is to send a letter requesting a "Business Review" [2]. It's probably a "fill out this simple 30 page form, wait 2.5 years (max!) and then have your review request politely declined" situation, but I suppose it's foolish to complain before trying. 1 - https://www.justice.gov/atr 2 - https://www.justice.gov/atr/business-reviews reply This isn't a terribly meaningful distinction. There are a dozen+ editing tools out there, most of them are pretty good and free. If Photoshop/Illustrator have 90% of the market because they are superior products, I'm not sure how much the government could/should do. Apple controls something like 90% of all mobile phone profits across the entire industry. I'm no

Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B ( bloomberg.com ) 2348 points by caoxuwen on Sept 15, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1246 comments bears-n-beets on Sept 15, 2022 | next [–] As a current software engineer at Adobe, I was really disappointed when I got the internal email announcing this this morning. It's reminiscent of Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior in the early 00s. Figma is the better product and Adobe knows it - but instead of using that to light a fire under them and wor

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