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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 8, 2013 18:43:14 GMT -9
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2013 20:00:55 GMT -9
Unfortunately that's not that good. According to Adobe these are downloads and activation codes only for users who already got legal / registered CS2 products, and this action was started just because of termination of Adobe CS2 activation servers in late December, sad but true.
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Post by bravesirkevin on Jan 8, 2013 20:56:30 GMT -9
Yeah... My friend's been using GIMP at the office cos his boss wouldn't shell out the cash to get him a working copy of photoshop, even though his job description entails doing top level web design and promotional materials. When I read about it, on lifehacker on monday, I sent him right there and then Adobe realised they'd buggered it up...
Must have been a PR nightmare for them. To be fair, I don't think they have anything to lose by making CS2 readily available as a free legal download. It'd certainly cut down on the piracy of their products and take market share away from GIMP for the non-linux users. CS2 is powerful, but it definitely doesn't compare to the currently available toolset
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 9, 2013 17:53:21 GMT -9
Unfortunately that's not that good. According to Adobe these are downloads and activation codes only for users who already got legal / registered CS2 products, and this action was started just because of termination of Adobe CS2 activation servers in late December, sad but true. I'm sorry, but that's incorrect. People, including myself, are able to download and install these with no problems. You can't register or update, but that's not a great loss. CS2 is running very nicely on my WinXP machine that has never had any Adobe professional products installed on it. Made using my new CS2 (Land Torpedo);
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Post by Christopher Roe on Jan 9, 2013 18:10:08 GMT -9
Mesper's just passing along what an official Adobe representative has stated publicly on their forums.
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Post by emergencyoverride on Jan 9, 2013 20:01:25 GMT -9
Nice! Got it downloaded and installed! As much as I love Gimp, it is not really a suitable alternative for Photoshop. (Especially if the Photoshop is free) Everything seems backwards or has to be done through an addon and the learning curve was pretty steep. But hey, its free and thats what I could afford.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy using Gimp now that I know what it can and can't do, but some of the can'ts are really frustrating sometimes. Plus, there is better manipulation of vector based images in Photoshop.
The acrobat 8.0 for pdfs was a nice bonus as well! Good score Squirmydad!!!! ;D
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Post by highlandpiper on Jan 9, 2013 21:37:55 GMT -9
Actually I own CS2 legally so I'm glad I saw this! I'm planning on upgrading to Windows 8 soon so it will be good to have this in case I ever need to reinstall.
Cheers!
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Post by hackbarth on Jan 10, 2013 4:18:26 GMT -9
Oh, boy, they are in a bind now...
Apparently the wording on the license could be interpreted as "Here is the software, you can have it!" and the specialized press run with it. Hundreds of sites divulged that they where offering the software for free, and in fact it was available without any hurdle, from their site, with legal keys attached.
I don't even know if they can claim that the copies downloaded aren't legit. It is as if someone just mistakenly dumped tons of snacks on a supermarket free samples dispenser and then later complained that people aren't paying for them.
Yes, they now claim that their intent weren't distributing the software free of charge. And I see how this goes against they model of business. Heck, even if Photoshop is very downgraded comparing with the current version, Adobe PDF isn't. In fact there isn't any reason to pay for the current product if this old one is free.
Summing, Adobe is in real trouble now, a PR nightmare if they try to collect or ask people not to use what was downloaded, and a deep market shrinkage if they decide to just take the losses and declare what they effectively distributed is in fact free.
As for me, is to late to let go of the GIMP, and I prefer open source products anyway...
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Post by bravesirkevin on Jan 10, 2013 4:47:58 GMT -9
Well, there are quite a few differences between the current iterations and the earlier ones, so they'd still have a sellable product and I really don't think it would hurt their profits too much at the end of the day... Bad PR, on the other hand, could cost them quite a lot.
They might have trouble selling individual packages of Acrobat, but I don't imagine they sell all that many of those anyway. In my experience, people who do have the latest version of Acrobat usually have it because they've bought the latest Creative Suite bundle in order to get the latest versions of Photoshop and Illustrator.
The other thing about CS2 is that it was built for archaic technology, and as it is it's hard to get it to work on current systems. In a few years it will be all but obsolete.
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Post by Christopher Roe on Jan 10, 2013 9:39:25 GMT -9
Hackbarth: Yeah, I bet there's a lot of this going on in their boardroom right now: I think I set a personal time record for going from "Sweet! I want to have Adobe's babies!" to "Aw, man, what a tease..." with this news. ;D I was interested in Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro, but couldn't justify spending a lot of money on any of them because I'd be using them only for a handful of specific features. So, the news that they were freely available was exciting at first, but as soon as I found out what their exact intent was, I'm not comfortable installing any of it. Part of it is not wanting to personally contribute to a "This is why we can't have nice things on the Internet" sort of situation, I guess. On the bright side, I already own a much more recent version of Photoshop. The layered PDF stuff I wanted to do with Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro is also something Scribus is more than capable of doing, so that mellows out the disappointment considerably.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 11, 2013 10:15:39 GMT -9
After reading through hundreds of forum posts, most of which are wild speculation, I'm still waiting for the official OFFICIAL announcement from Adobe on what they were thinking. Seems to me they could have posted the DL page without the serials and then just sent the serials to all the registered users, since that's who they originally stated this was all for in the first place. Making an announcement that it's only for one group, but leaving EVERYTHING out in the open for anyone to pick up and play with is like leaving a yellow sticky note on a pile of gold that says, "Don't pick up! Not for you!" and expecting that to guard the treasure. Bizarre. It's fun to play with Auditions again, I kept hoping it would come out for the Mac as I don't really like GarageBand. I used to have a teaching lab with five PC's that all had Auditions (licensed student copies so that was all legal) but my old boss shut it down as he was a PC hater. After he quit I found out he was actually illiterate and was afraid somebody would find out so he got rid of things that might give it away, like working with PC's.
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Post by old squirmydad on Jan 16, 2013 10:30:44 GMT -9
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