Your colleague is ignorant.
Illustrator appeared earlier than FH!!
Adobe launched Illustrator version 1.1 in 1987, and FH was released in 1991 Born in the hands of Altsys.
When Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, Altsys opposed the integration of FreeHand into Adobe's territory because of the overlap between the FreeHand and Illustrator markets, believing that it would stifle its future; after a series of legal and federal trade After the Office's intervention, FreeHand returned to the hands of Altsys, and was purchased by Macromedia, which released versions 5.0, 5.5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11/MX.
But ironically, Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005, and FreeHand eventually became an Adobe asset.
After Macromedia was acquired by Adobe, the Adobe Studio 8 released excluded FreeHand.
On May 15, 2007, Adobe finally decided to remove this Illustrator rival from the stage. disappeared.
So it is said that FH was born later than AI and died earlier than AI. The imitation statement is simply confusing right and wrong.
The reason for the misunderstanding of your colleague is that FH has been supporting the MS Windows platform since its birth, while AI has been committed to the Mac platform at that time.
And AI has always been AI, but the owners of FH have changed several times. Maybe the poor children are more likely to be pitied by everyone=. =