![]() No other download page has yet been modified Has recently been added to the Japanese Download Page. This measure is a measure of the part of its support for customers that do not impair the convenience of customers who are licensed existing regular, the effect that can be a violation of the license, the use of customers that are not licensed genuine understanding We ask that you are available on. To provide the software free of charge to everyone of an unspecified number is not in our interest. However, that will still be available to customers who use the Acrobat 7 products and CS2 to continue on the operating system of the old, as for customers who own a valid copy of Acrobat 7 and CS2, the activation server I'm allowed to offer the software directly from Adobe Systems that do not intervene. These products, which has been released in more than seven years ago, will not work with all major operating systems that are currently available to many people. index.html << zh-cn (Simplified Chinese)ĭecember 13, 2012, we stop the activation server of Adobe ® Acrobat ® 7 2 Adobe ® Creative Suite ® products and technical reasons at Adobe Systems. index.html << zh-tw (Traditional Chinese) index.html << pt-br (Brazillian Portugese) They could have also released something like a patch for the users, so they could change their installation type.But everything finds its way into the world wide web and it would have leaked soon.Īnyways now this gets something like a big advert! More possible buyers. I think the original contacted the servers to check it and these are something like VL installers, they just take a key and then you are fine. We are in the internet century, you would find a CS2 Torrent or whatever.Īctually I think those installers are different from the original ones. If you wouldn't have the original media, it would be no problem at all. Its almost like they want to get CS2 into the hands of users who never bought it, which is a smart strategy since it would get people learning on Adobe software and would make them more likely to buy a newer version once they've put time into learning it. I'm surprised they provided the download links though, since legitimate CS2 users should have their own installation media. This gives the impression that they have no problem with people obtaining this for free who never bought CS2, but licensed portions of their software like you mention, probably prevent Adobe from officially making it freeware. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. I agree, good on you Adobe! Too bad Microsoft won't follow the lead and give out Office 2003 for freeĮffective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. In a way they have to do something though, if they're going to shut down the activation servers. ![]() The licence holders from other companies probably wouldn't mind something like this (since they've already got the money for that series of product), and customers should be happy. I see, well in my opinion thats a pretty good stragedy. So how do you artificially inflate your market share and get those people training for a job using such expensive software? Adobe can only charge a high premium for their software while they're the undisputed market leader in terms of market share, since people are only going to pay those prices while they have to, and they're only going to have to while the vast majority of professionals are trained exclusively in Photoshop. ![]() What better way to see off the threat of people learning their skills on say, GIMP, than by "accidentally" releasing your old software for free so that your cheaper rivals can't even compete on price?Īdobe play a clever game by charging high prices, and encouraging black market uptake like this. Adobe CS2 is still a very potent piece of software that is much more capable than the FOSS alternatives. It wouldn't surprise me if this is an "accident", with the quotes. Adobe have a long track record of making it easier for pirates though. Well, they can't legally make it freeware, because they license parts from other companies - particularly thinking of the codecs in Premiere. This might just be a "silent abandonment" of the well retired second Creative Suite, or perhaps something done for the sake of advertising. ![]() Silvohex wrote:It's very interesting that an Adobe employee says that this offer is limited to people who already own CS2, yet the website is available to everyone.
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