Macromedia has announced that they will not included Freehand in the next release of their suite, Studio 8. Since the Adobe announced that they were buying Macromedia, speculation has run wild about what products would get killed. Freehand was high on that list. While a capable program (I actually like using it quite a bit), it’s not nearly as powerful or flexible as Illustrator.
It will be interesting to see what else gets killed as the merger moves forward. I can’t see GoLive making it to the next version.