Altsys Corporation
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Altsys Corporation was an early Apple Macintosh developer and publisher, founded in 1984 by James R. Von Ehr II and Kevin Crowder and based in Texas. The name is a reference to the Alternative Systems Programming Group, a group of computer science students who had hacked the computer system at Michigan State University; Von Ehr was one of the members. Their main products were:
Altsys provided Virtuoso to Aldus Corporation under the Aldus FreeHand name as a vector drawing program to compete with Adobe Illustrator. Aldus Freehand was published for many years, originally only on the Apple Macintosh, then also for Microsoft Windows. When Aldus was acquired by Adobe, the licensing agreement that Altsys had with Aldus precluded FreeHand from being part of the deal, so the publishing rights reverted to Altsys. Altsys was acquired by Macromedia in January, 1995 and Von Ehr became a major Macromedia shareholder and joined the Macromedia board of directors. In 2003, the Texas staff were laid off or relocated to Macromedia's main office in San Francisco, California. Prior to that, the team added many new features to Macromedia FreeHand MX since they thought it might be the last version. Adobe Systems finally acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005. Maintenance work on the remaining Altsys product line was transitioned to Adobe India. Alsys products were:
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