Re:Adobe almost does something amazing by accident
by eli on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @01:58PM
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I'm not really sure what you're getting at. You think it is not an accident? (They changed the URL, by the way. The one all the blogs were linking to is 404.)
Re:Adobe almost does something amazing by accident
by MarkNederhoed on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @02:14PM
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The blog link is still up.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_dow...
Earlier HN threads called this whole thing 'marketing', I'm not going to say this wasn't an accident. I'm saying that: a thing like this, where people get excited over nothing could have been avoided with just a little notice on the download page. That would've been enough to stop this as it was going on. Giving people access to software you don't want them to use is silly.
From the forums:
" Dov Isaacs wrote: 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."
On that same page users mentioned that this "looked like a legitimate product form the official web-site."
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662