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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