Frankly, I doubt anyone who bothers getting CS2 free is the sort of person
who would bother buying an adobe version of anything. CS2 is so far behind,
Adobe doesn't care anymore, but can't officially give it away, since it
would set a precedent.
Generally, those who want CS free, just go straight to CS5 or 6, and
download/install those for free (trivially easy, with a little googling).
The only people bothering to do the end-run and get CS2 for free are those
who don't know how to get CS5 or 6 free and see this as some sort of
"opportunity"...
If one is going to bother to pirate CS, get the latest version, at least.
On 1/10/13 6:16 AM, "olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I tend to believe Ken's surmise that the plan is hook-em now and hope
> they buy into the products in the future. Cost... essentially nothing
> for software that's no longer being maintained... except for the !$%$#
> activation software which still must remain running forever. While
> there might have been a technical glitch with the activation software I
> rather doubt that Adobe couldn't fix it... rather they chose not to.
> Maybe they just didn't want to maintain the old activation software.
> Who knows? But what they did know is that that link and those serial
> numbers would spread across the web like wildfire... just like they
> planned it. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 1/8/2013 10:39 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> According to this, technically it would still be piracy, so let your
>>> conscience (or your company software policy) be your guide. :(
>>
>> I kinda wondered if there was something going on there. However, with
>> Adobe, you never know... By doing this, they pick up a whole scad of
>> users who will become addicted to it and will end up buying a current
>> version. In a way, this is what they did with Lightroom.
>>
>> But what really bugged me about this and why I raised an eyebrow is
>> that Adobe doesn't exactly "own" everything in CS2. Other companies
>> get paid for items in every unit sold.
>>
>> if in the end, Adobe says that this is legit, I may download it, but
>> for now I'll stick with my paid for and fully licensed copies of the
>> software I use.
>>
>> Besides, I'm not sure I want to lose 80GB of HD and 16GB of ram.
>>
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