You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by sorval on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:50AM (#24866668)

I worked there. It was a greasy and miserable place run by people who should have retired long ago. Everything was waterfall development, and there was a yearly slave-rush to their miserable convention show, where only half the stuff really worked. No one really knew what they were doing. It was like a time machine back to 20 years ago. So glad I left.

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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by mdip on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:54AM (#24870108)

Thank you for confirming the things I have suspected for a long time.

Maybe it's the path I took in the industry but I had the displeasure of having to automate the installation of Adobe security updates to tens of thousands of Windows boxes a decade ago right through having to (briefly) write software targeting a customer's Adobe Experience Manager product in the last couple of years. There's a long rant bubbling up about AEM, but I'll resist the temptation and just say a suitable 4-letter word, instead.

Their products cost a fortune and for the privilege of forking over your hard-earned money, the company does things like this. I still own a license for one of the older versions of Photoshop post-Activation. I corrected it in a manner that would probably qualify as "cracking it" before ever activating after having run into grief with the product at my day job (at the time). Anymore, if there's a reasonable alternative, that's the kind of stupid I won't spend my money on.

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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by egypturnash on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:08AM (#24870260)

As a long time user of one of their tools (Illustrator, which I have a strong suspicion is not a prestigious team to work on) I have always suspected something like this. Sigh.

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