Adobe is offering many of their CS2 software for free for PC and Mac.

Post by Dhekke » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #5

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #4

I've seen this linked on other sites I use, but what is unclear is if we're meant to have access to this. It would be nice to see a notice from Adobe announcing this as freely available to the public. I'm just uncomfortable with the fact that this potentially could be some individual's screw up and that for all intents and purposes we're pirating it (since there is no licence).

>I'm just uncomfortable with the fact that this potentially could be some individual's screw up and that for all intents and purposes we're pirating it A store has a sign that says "free bread", you take a loaf, and later it turns out that the sign was put out by mistake- are you a thief?

Post by raverbashing » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

mistercow wrote: post #8

ZachPruckowski wrote: post #6

Makes sense - people who would actually pay for Adobe software probably wouldn't settle for a free 6-7 year-old version, and people who wouldn't pay for Photoshop anyhow will use the free versions, meaning (a) it's now really hard to be "the cheaper Photoshop" if you're a competitor, and (b) once the guys using the free CS2 can afford to buy this sort of software, they'll probably get CS6 instead of a competitor beca…

It's also a good way to fight piracy, since so many people currently learn Adobe's products on pirate copies.

Post by mstefanko » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

gizzlon wrote: post #14

Seems to be down now: Site Area Temporarily Unavailable We're sorry, the site area you've requested is unavailable. Please try again later Or maybe it's US only?

Post by cygwin98 » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 4:00 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #12

cygwin98 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have vmware Fusion, you can install Snow Leopard within your Lion or Mountain Lion.

If I had to go that far, I'd be more inclined to install Windows- for all those other edge cases when you just have to have a Windows instance.

Post by willcodeforfoo » Mon, Jan 07, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #4

I've seen this linked on other sites I use, but what is unclear is if we're meant to have access to this. It would be nice to see a notice from Adobe announcing this as freely available to the public. I'm just uncomfortable with the fact that this potentially could be some individual's screw up and that for all intents and purposes we're pirating it (since there is no licence).