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

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

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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?

it was working fine earlier (3 hours ago) in the UK, managed to download and get a key.

I got the temporary unavailable message a few minutes ago and then got a download page on reload.

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

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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?

Sounds like a 'Price Error' event. Thought Adobe was lightened up and started playing smart.

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

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post #5

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?

Whether you're a thief or not, is it harmful merely to wonder if you might be? I believe not.

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

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post #24

It appears they now have a hard redirect set up, so I would say this was a mistake.

Wouldn't Adobe stand to lose a lot of money, since people can use the upgrade path instead of a full purchase?

I imagine that would be a stopping block to making earlier versions free or very cheap.

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

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post #27
post #24

It appears they now have a hard redirect set up, so I would say this was a mistake.

Wouldn't Adobe stand to lose a lot of money, since people can use the upgrade path instead of a full purchase? I imagine that would be a stopping block to making earlier versions free or very cheap.

They only offer upgrade pricing from CS5. They stopped offering upgrades prices to CS3 and CS4 owners at the end of 2012:

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/faq/upgrade-poli...

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

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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?

Down in the UK.

Working fine here and I'm in the UK on Three mobile broadband, tapped refresh a few times all good, though waited few minutes and on the 5th refresh load check I got the sorry try later page.

Reminds me of my old telco day as between 3-5pm (GMT) USA lines were at there busiest as that is when they wake up and with that I suspect the same is true today in many ways still.

But is certainly not a case of any region limitations from what I can see and is just a busy site waking up to the morning local rush of freeness. The old /. effect.

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