series of exclusionary and anti-competitive acts and strategies designed to kill FreeHand, the dominant competitor to Adobe's Illustrator software product, instead of competing on the basis of product merit according to the principals of free market capitalism. Adobe had no response to the claims and the lawsuit was eventually settled. The FreeHand community believes Adobe should release the product to an open-source community if it cannot update it internally. , on its FreeHand product page, Adobe stated, "While we recognize FreeHand has a loyal customer base, we encourage users to migrate to the new Adobe Illustrator CS4 software which supports both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs and Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista." , the FreeHand page no longer exists; instead, it simply redirects to the Illustrator page. Adobe's software FTP server still contains a directory for FreeHand, but it is empty. Cancellation fees In April 2021, Adobe received criticism from Twitter users for the company's cancellation fees after a customer shared a tweet showing they had been charged a $291.45 cancellation fee for their Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Many also showed their cancellation fees for Adobe Creative Cloud, with this leading to many encouraging piracy of Adobe products and/or purchase of alternatives with lower prices or using FOSS software instead. Furthermore, there have been reports that with changing subscriptions it is possible to avoid paying this fee. Chief executive officers John Warnock (1982-2000) Bruce Chizen (2000-2007) Shantanu Narayen (2007–present) See also Adobe MAX Digital rights management (DRM) List of acquisitions by Adobe United States v. Elcom Ltd. References External links 1982 establishments in California Companies based in San Jose, California Companies listed on the Nasdaq Multinational companies headquartered in the United States Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Software companies established in 1982 Type foundries American companies established in 1982 1980s initial public offerings Software companies of the United States