Agreed. Though I was just pointing out the existence of the Mac way, which could be much more inefficient performance-wise due to the double hit of Rosetta and VMware Fusion.
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?
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 because they're more familiar with it.
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.
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.
I still use CS2 for all my web design work. I installed the demo of CS6 and looked at what had been improved in my normal workflow and it turned out it hadn't really changed since CS2.
While the world thinks its obsolete, it really isn't.
Frustrating however as I now can't reinstall After Effects CS2 as they haven't resolved the termination of the activation servers for that.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 87.8 ms ] threadBut hey, can't complain since it's free ;)
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).
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?
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.
Also see the big lack of competition in that area (for professional use, I mean).
There's AI and CorelDraw, Inkscape is "good enough" for home use but it barely registers
There's PS, some other apps like Pixelmator, Gimp, etc, but PS is the most used
And then there's InDesign. CorelDraw can do some of its work, still...
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Or maybe it's US only?
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.
I imagine that would be a stopping block to making earlier versions free or very cheap.
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/faq/upgrade-poli...
So maybe they decided to give it away, because it's EOL'd sooo hard. Let's see how this develops :)
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It's so frustrating to miss out on stuff like this.
While the world thinks its obsolete, it really isn't.
Frustrating however as I now can't reinstall After Effects CS2 as they haven't resolved the termination of the activation servers for that.
"No, You Can't Download Adobe CS2 Applications For Free"