Macromedia Flash MX was also the first version released after Adobe started running scared and fighting dirty with a look-and-feel lawsuit against Macromedia Fl

Macromedia Flash MX was also the first version released after Adobe started running scared and fighting dirty with a look-and-feel lawsuit against Macromedia Flash 5 for its use of tabbed UI palettes: https://web.archive.org/web/20010516014855/http://www.adobefacts.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20010516014855/http://www.adobef... “Adobe's tabbed palette, used throughout Adobe's products, are being copied by Macromedia® in many of its products, including Macromedia® Flash™ 5, Dreamweaver®, FreeHand® and Fireworks® software.” Compare the infringing tabbed palettes of Flash 5 to the non-infringing (vertically-stacked) palettes of Flash MX: - https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/macromedia-flash/macromedia-flash-5-0 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/macromedia-flas... - https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/macromedia-flash/macromedia-flash-mx https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/macromedia-flas... And then of course Adobe gave in and bought Macromedia outright in the MX2004 era.