G+_Elias Mårtenson Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Disappointing... many of us were really excited about this for a hot minute. Mac users, not so much unless they had a PowerPC, but windows users certainly... however, NOPE! http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/adobe-almost-does-something-amazing-by-accident/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Emil “opi” Oppeln-Broni Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Hey, it's Adobe. You're lucky they didn't sue. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jay Kennedy Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Amazing they didn't sue THEMSELVES ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Emil “opi” Oppeln-Broni Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 The deevolution of Patent Trolls. You go so deep you sue yourself out of existance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tim Allen Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Seems like the headline is being buried in this story... This all stems from Adobe turning off an old activation server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jay Kennedy Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Correct, which disabled the ability for current CS2 customers to attach to said licensing server. Instead of offering them a patch to fix this issue, they offered up a free download which ANYBODY could grab... suddenly all these stories came out (reported by many a TWiT staff member on google+) about Adobe giving away CS2 for free. Nope...link down, false assumption, it was an accident...ergo, Adobe ALMOST did something amazing. Headline is spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tim Allen Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 every man If you want stuff for free then yes, it's spot on. However, if you pay for software and have had to deal with draconian copy protection, the headline is completely buried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jay Kennedy Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 You CAN'T pay for CS2, that's the thing, and you might be missing the point. You could have paid for it back then, but now you have to buy the latest. We're all used to having to pay for software... that's fine. Developers deserve to be paid. Thing is, CS2 is 8 years old, it appeared as though Adobe was about to set the standard of letting their VERY old software go for free, and for those who wanted the full functionality of the latest and greatest, they'd have to pay, that's where they make their money. And they're more likely to build a bigger Adobe audience by turning their earlier releases into freeware, gaining an adoption from audience they never had. Imagine if microsoft released Office 2003 for free? Once software goes end of life, I never understood why it wasn't given away. This could have been a really cool precedent.... that's the point of the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tim Allen Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 every man I know you can't buy it anymore. I still have one old machine running CS2 because I need one application that got dropped after that. Sometimes I have to rework that machine and need to reinstall. Those servers were always supposed to be available. I never heard anything about them going down until today. Now apparently the free link is gone too, what if it gets lost in the shuffle completely in the next few months? What do I do? If they can turn off a server for CS2, then heck that's a good motivator to make people upgrade faster than they want for even newer releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tim Allen Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 As far as free versions go. Why would anyone ever buy from Adobe again? I was just as productive, if not more so, in CS2 than I have been in any version since. Aiming for the low hanging fruit, as they say, is not always the best future course for a business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jay Kennedy Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Now that they shut down those servers AND the free download links, you raise an awesome questions... how are CS2 users able to keep running now? I haven't seen that answered yet. I would think the reason to pay for the latest Adobe is for the support, and to have a version that's compatible with your OS. For example, the CS2 will only work on macs that are PowerPC's. You raise a great point: why SHOULD people upgrade if the older versions are fine, and in some ways, improved over the new? Perhaps that's motivation for Adobe to step up their game and make new versions worth paying for! I'm familiar mostly with their audio editing suite which used to be CoolEdit and then became Adobe Audition. I have seen that improve immeasurably with the recent CS6.... but it was kinda crappy earlier on. Great points, Tim Allen , love the discussion with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tim Allen Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 BTW, one mistake in the article... CS2 runs fine on Intel Macs up to Snow Leopard (which is what I run it on). Lion got rid of Rosetta, so that was the end of the line for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bruce Johnson Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 So what about those who downloaded the CS2 software off the Adobe site during that short window it was available? Sounds like it probably won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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