Adobe
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
A software company that makes programs to allow people to turn the contrast up on photographs so that they can post them to their MySpace profiles. It also owns Macromedia, the company responsible for Flash. With the widespread piracy of Photoshop and Flash, and the fact that their Acrobat Reader is free to download from their website, nobody has ever actually bought an Adobe product. Despite this, Adobe is still somehow a profitable company. This means that it either prints counterfeit money (photoshopped McDonalds coupons) or is a bizarre entity of antimatter that may cause the annihilation of the universe if it grows large enough.
[edit] Adobe Profits
Adobe's earnings since 2000. This is serious:
- 2007: $3.158 billion
- 2006: $2.575 billion
- 2005: $1.966 billion
- 2004: $1.667 billion
- 2003: $1.295 billion
- 2002: $1.165 billion
- 2001: $1.230 billion
- 2000: $1.266 billion
Somehow, between making more monies, Adobe still manages to bitch and moan about lonely basement dwellers pirating their software. Clearly, you should all be ashamed of yourselves!
[edit] Quick guide to legally buying an Adobe product
The purchase of an Adobe product is not a task to be entered into lightly. Many have sacrificed their lives trying to generate the money required. The below guide provides a relatively low-risk method of legally obtaining any Adobe program without resorting to piracy or other illegal activities.
- Sell your house and all your worldly possessions.
- Sell some of your less important organs to science.
- Refrain from buying food. Food is an unnecessary expenditure which can be avoided if you are willing to recycle your own waste for sustenance.
- Congratulations! You now have enough funding to buy the Adobe program of your choice within the confines of the law!
[edit] Popular Adobe Software
- Photoshop (for photo fixing)
- Flash (one-way ticket to instant internet popularity)
- Premiere Pro (for making pron)
- Audition (making musak so ladiez will like you)
- Dreamweaver (making internet)
- After Effects (for putting lightsabers into your films)
