Why Adobe’s Acquisition of Figma is Bad For Everyone

…including Figma, Adobe, Figma Users and America

Maxi Gorynski

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On a couple of occasions over the last few years I predicted that the 20s would see a swell in antitrust activity in response to a solid decade of horizontal mergers and anti-competitive acquisitions in tech, but the Figma-Adobe deal has me looking like a twinkly-eyed naïf yet again.

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Maxi Gorynski

Technologist, writer, contrapuntalist, lion tamer and piano tuner