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Release a patch to remove the check and you don’t need to worry about it.
They did! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865636
Those are no longer available.
You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
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Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You did purchase the software after all Err, umm, no. You purchased a license to use the software.
Nonsense. The disks are your property and you're entitled to use them as you see fit (except when that use is illegal e.g. copyright infringement - and note that copyright does not cover the transitory copies made as part of running the application).
> The disks are your property and you're entitled to use them as you see fit
I guess you can use them as frisbees.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#83Alexa, show me how to drive a significant portion of your customer base towards unashamed piracy.
Or better yet, an open source alternative. I like both GIMP and Krita. The problem with piracy is that it still ends up with more people knowing the proprietary software, and thus helps it keep the position cemented.
My notions might be outdated, but doesn't GIMP still lack CMYK support, which is sort of the default in the printing world?
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#84No one would still be using CS 2 or 3 if Adobe had reasonable prices on new products. I bought Adobe products since the mid 1990s, but I recently switched to Affinity Photo and Designer because Adobe priced me out. Elements wasn't powerful enough for me. I was surprised how good Affinity software is. It does everything I need and is a very reasonable price without a subscription. I may never buy another Adobe product…
The old non-Flash Photoshop CS3 UI is really nice and familiar to me, so I still willingly use it almost every day. My needs definitely aren't Pro Tier, but it's great for cleaning up my scans: https://i.imgur.com/WWXiUFI.png
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#85And you can no longer use the 2008 version of Gmail. Adobe moved to a subscription model that has allowed them to stay alive as a business without monetizing you as the product like many other ad based businesses. Adobe gets trashed endlessly for this because we had a taste of the perpetual license long ago. But the perpetual license doesn't make sense with cloud based updates and document sync that everyone also exp…
Makes me glad that I can still use my NT Server 4.0 and Exchange 5.5.
Imagine requiring set product lifespans in this day and age, you’d get laughed right out of the data centre.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#86I discovered this at the start of lockdown when our hackspace got donated some older iMacs and full copies of CS3. Apparently if you got in contact with them when they first announced the retirement they were giving out activation-free installers to people who could prove ownership. It'd be lovely if someone has these archived somewhere for those of us that weren't quick enough.
It'd be lovely if you had contact information in your profile ;)
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or better yet, an open source alternative. I like both GIMP and Krita. The problem with piracy is that it still ends up with more people knowing the proprietary software, and thus helps it keep the position cemented.
My notions might be outdated, but doesn't GIMP still lack CMYK support, which is sort of the default in the printing world?
No idea. I think I heard somewhere that it supports it now, but I barely use GIMP, and definitely don't print anything I use with it.
Most of what I do I use Krita or more obscure tools for.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#88This is a fundamental problem with commercial software. 15 years ago when this software was released the choice to have server authentication essentially was the original sin.
No, it's a fundamental problem with Adobe software.
Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks
#89I own Photoshop CS4 but I couldn't get it working on Wine Linux so I feel fully justified in using a pirated "Portable" copy.
This is what happens when companies don't support their own products.
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Maybe someone can crack the code to not require activation? You did purchase the software after all, and unless you are illegally distributing it I see it as a perfectly fine thing to do whatever you want within your own private residence.
> You did purchase the software after all Err, umm, no. You purchased a license to use the software.
I run my life by morals, not by law, but with a risk tolerance bounded by the effects of law.
That said, my moral interpretation of closed-source software is that I can do whatever the hell I want with it as long as I'm not distributing it to others without permission. Anything that enters my private residence, whether it be a CD I may have bought, or a very long byte array that got transmitted into my internal LAN in return for a payment, is fair game for me to do anything I want with, as long as it doesn't reach anyone outside.