Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger

Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by bilekas on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:55AM (#38682501)

I agree to be honest, I do find it refreshing too that they're both Willing to part ways instead of trying to manipulate the system. I don't think this could just customers but even the companies themselves I don't see a loss.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by popcorncowboy on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:02AM (#38682619)

This genuinely made me laugh thank you. But no, they're not refreshingly "willing to part ways", just that their extensive legal teams assessed every possible angle to force this through and the big chairs made a call that proceeding in the face of such harsh opposition was going to be too costly.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by vikramkr on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:13AM (#38682782)

They themselves said they spent 15 months trying to manipulate the system and are only doing this because they failed, let's not be naive about them doing this out of the goodness of their hearts lol

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by andybak on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:02AM (#38682617)

Maybe they failed to find a way round the rules? That seems more likely than a spontaneous desire to "do the right thing".

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by j4yav on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:10AM (#38682745)

It is refreshing that they weren't able to get away with it, anyway.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by eviks on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:30AM (#38682993)

They were trying to manipulate the system, just failed at that

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