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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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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?

If you don't return the loaf, I think you're being unethical.

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

#32

I found this article online which gives more details on this offering : http://www.ghacks.net/2013/01/07/grab-adobe-creative-suite-2...

Unfortunately that article doesn't have any more or less information than we ourselves have. It is just an "article" written about the page the OP linked to.

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

#33
I could access this on my mobile about an hour ago, but now it's just showing this error:

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Site Area Temporarily Unavailable

We're sorry, the site area you've requested is unavailable. Please try again later.

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It's so frustrating to miss out on stuff like this.

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

#34
post #33

I could access this on my mobile about an hour ago, but now it's just showing this error: ----- Site Area Temporarily Unavailable We're sorry, the site area you've requested is unavailable. Please try again later. ----- It's so frustrating to miss out on stuff like this.

Could it just be that they possibly have a limit on the number of connections "leeching" their goods?

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

#35
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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?

If you don't return the loaf, I think you're being unethical.

OK, going from analogy back to reality, how do you return a copy of software?

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

#39
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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?

If you don't return the loaf, I think you're being unethical.

I'm with you and I'm sick of Moral Decay.

Just because something is legal doesn't mean you should do it.

Just because you can do something questionable without anyone probably finding out, doesn't mean you should do it.

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

#40

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).

It doesn't help that Adobe has a million twitter accounts.
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