free downloads of the 2005 software CS2??

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January 7, 2013
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I read here:

<http://photographylife.com/adobe-to-provide-creative-suite-2-for-free#more-42755>

that Adobe is offering free downloads of the 2005 software CS2.

The link provided there:<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads&pid=4485850> does not work.

Any one know answers? Thank you.

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Correct answer Community_Admin

Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.

TeotiGraphix

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I swear Adobe is run by fing APES!

I paid 1800$ for my CS2 production pro and now that you are so fing cheap to validate users serial numbers, anyone that din't go to boyscouts and grilscouts gets all this crap for free and ligitimate serial numbers.

Adobe, you're Rome and eventually you will just crumble from the inside out. This isn't my first experience with your complete idiocy.

And to say this software dosn't run on newer OSs is BS, it all runs fine in Windows 7!

Mike

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ATPIT99

Participant

Is the free CS2 Suite for commecrial use as well?

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Eugen_Something

Participating Frequently

if u read my reply a bit up you will see that theres an official statement saying that it is NOT free.

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ginopilot

Participating Frequently

nothing in the donwlonad pages, nothing in the eula, nothing during intall. Soo it's free unless they change something. Legaly no one could tell it's not free.

Community_AdminCorrect answer

Inspiring

Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.

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stagesound

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"Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch" - seriously!? You've got to be kidding! Does anyone believe an excuse like this!! Are we expected to believe that one of the world's leading software suppliers didn't have a backup of their server, and couldn't "roll back" to a stage where it didn't have the "technical glitch"!

Is "technical glitch" a coded way of saying that someone accidentaly deleted the last virtual machine which was running as an activation server?

The download site was unavailable a few hours ago, but it's back up now, and despite all the protesting from Adobe that they only intended the downloads to be available for existing customers, there's not a word on the download page to say so! How long would it take to update the site with a few lines explaining the licensing situation?

Apart from shooting themselves in the foot, what are Adobe playing at!?