The history of FreeHand is actually quite interesting [1]. Adobe acquired it in 1994 when they bought Aldus. The FTC then ordered the product to be returned to Altsys which was subsequently acquired by Macromedia in 1995. Macromedia developed it for a number of years before being acquired by Adobe in 2005. Finally, Adobe had successfully gained control of FreeHand whereby they immediately killed it.
One wonders why the FTC did not block Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia or at least require FreeHand to be spun off into a separate company. The market has really suffered since Adobe became dominant.
omg I'm still missing freehand.. :/
Anyway inkscape it's a nice tool. (I had used freehand, illustrator, flash.. ) and inkscape it's fine (When I need to do some vector work I know it's there) but I mostly work on Ubuntu.
