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sheridanpa
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January 7, 2013
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free downloads of the 2005 software CS2??

  • 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.

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    TeotiGraphix
    TeotiGraphix
    Participating Frequently
    January 8, 2013

    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
    January 8, 2013

    Is the free CS2 Suite for commecrial use as well?

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    Eugen_Something
    Participating Frequently
    January 8, 2013

    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
    January 8, 2013

    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.

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    Inspiring
    January 8, 2013

    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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    Eugen_Something
    Participating Frequently
    January 8, 2013

    Please, could you then confirm if it is NOT legal to use this software free of charge for either personal or commercial usage such as making sprites for software?

    I understand that it was intended for the costumers with those versions, how about the ones that were interested into using  that specific photoshop version without having a license?

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 8, 2013

    Thanks! i searched that thread before but couldnt find anything conclusive, it then redirected me to another thread which contained an answear by a member with the staff badge, i will safely say since he has the staff badge he is quite possibly employed by adobe

    Here is his reply:

    On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated ...

    You have heard wrong! Adobe is absolutely not providing free copies of CS2!

    What is true is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don't require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available. (Special serial numbers are provided on the page for each product download.) See <http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1114930>.

    You are only legally entitled to download and install with that serial number if you have a valid license to the product!

              - Dov

    Thanks for your feedback.

    Here is the reference: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662#4974662

    I guess thats pretty much official, Adobe Photoshop CS2 is NOT free after all

    Thank you for your help finding this answear, i will inform the others i know, that its indeed not free and redirect them to that link, there i go again to that awfull ms paint for my sprites.

    Maybe 1 day they will change it to free who knows.


    ms paint?  you must really be good to get worthwhile graphics out of that.  you could go back to school and get student pricing.  i think that would be a better option.

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 7, 2013

    the downloads are for licensed users of cs2 that need to migrate their software.

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    Darren__
    Participating Frequently
    January 7, 2013

    There are loads of threads on this already.  The answer is it's not true.

    However, it's been reported so much that Adobe have got a serious problem if they want to control it.

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