You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

Post by justinclift » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:15 AM UTC

core-questions wrote: post #174

aaron695 wrote: post #162

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What would you think it would cost per year? What $ amount? What would be the break down? Legacy software, security and the constant upgrades, a manager, HR, customer support. Training your all your call centres to know about it and who to re-direct issues to.

> What would you think it would cost per year? The real cost is the people who don't go and subscribe to Adobe CC because they still have a totally functional release of CS3. Once their old machines die, they'll be forced to become a renter.

Post by rlayton2 » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:20 AM UTC

rlayton2 wrote: post #182

srtjstjsj wrote: post #141

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Really? Australia mandates a 12+ year warranty?

There is no time limit in law. If its a physical good, it is expected that it degrades over time, so you can't take, say, your washing machine back after that period of time and demand your money back. Further, the law doesn't dictate that updates are required, or anything like that, so if CS3 doesn't work on Windows 10, thats not Adobe's fault. However, if you can show that it no longer works on a system it used to…

Post by johncolanduoni » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:20 AM UTC

tsjq wrote: post #118

savant_penguin wrote: post #54

Just swap "Adobe cs2" for a car so it gets a lot funnier >>Sir, you are no longer allowed to use your car >But I paid for it! It's my car! >>Our aging servers had to be retired >Can't you just turn off the checking so it won't cost you anything and I can keep using my car? >>No sir, without the checking people would start pirating the car > But you don't even sell this car anymore! So much so you don't even want to k…

Well said. This will happen soon. Recently I Came across some Honda car ad that mentioned "free subscription to blahblah app for xyz years". That's the step-1 towards conditioning us into accepting that "car features will stop working in xyz years"

Post by hardwaresofton » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:24 AM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #167

hardwaresofton wrote: post #166

https://www.gimp.org https://krita.org/en If you donate anything near what you would have paid for Adobe, then these projects will be awash in resources.

That's a really interesting assertion. I have a feeling you could throw arbitrary amount of money at GIMP and it will still be almost useless.

Post by interestica » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:29 AM UTC

Jasper_ wrote: post #184

Lammy wrote: post #49

There are special no-activation-required versions of the entire CS2 and CS3 product line! Adobe killed the product activation servers for CS2 products in 2013, and for CS3 products in 2017. For CS2, they offered Activation-free replacement installers and generic serial numbers on their support page. This resulted in a bunch of press[0] about it being a /!\ omg completely free Creative Suite /!\, so for CS3's 2017 shu…

I believe part of this is because Dolby is suing Adobe, saying they mandate certain pricing requirements in the license agreements, and so Adobe has responded by pulling old versions of their software with support for Dolby file formats. [0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6002319/Dolbyvsad...