You’re also outside of your license agreement here – unless the
disks were given to you (effectively transferring the license to you)
you can’t legally use the applications, and you will have a very hard
time proving ownership for re-activation once they time bomb out. I
believe this time-bomb started ticking in CS, it is certainly there
in CS2 and 3.
Interesting side-note, the original business model of Photoshop was
to bundle it with every scanner, camera, or anything that would even
hope to generate an image. It was once (I believe as a direct result
of this) the most widely pirated application in the world, even
surpassing Windows in that regard. This was one prong (though
unstated publicly) of the strategy which firmly seated it as the de-
facto image editor standard.
Walter
On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:12 AM, hugh wrote:
G4 also came installed with Photoshop, InDesign etc. (but no
disks), and these programmes transferred happily to the Powerbook.
Unfortunately, when I installed Tiger on my Powerbook, I lost
functionality in all the Adobe programmes which appeared to need
installing all over again.
I notice many users in the print world are now using InDesign CS (its odd that its also very easy to come across a copy to easily use) where as the struggling market leader Quark has bolted down the Software good and proper. Could it be Adobe are building market share by having a more lapse approach to pirated software to gain young users on tight budgets who will then not use anything else in the future?
David
On 14 Jul 2008, at 16:28, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
This was one prong (though
unstated publicly) of the strategy which firmly seated it as the de-
facto image editor standard.
David Owen
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At the university I used to teach at, you could get student discounts
of 50% off or more from Adobe. That might be another avenue as well.
Quark are not nearly as generous. But I suspect Adobe is turning a
blind eye to piracy on the one hand while building up their ability
to remote-deactivate legitimate copies of their applications at the
same time. It’s the old heroin dealer approach – first taste’s free…
Walter
On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:06 PM, David Owen wrote:
Could it be Adobe are building market share by having a more lapse
approach to pirated software to gain young users on tight budgets
who will then not use anything else in the future?
Yes, I got InDesign as well…whether the guy who had the G4 before me got a bundle or not, I don’t know.
It came with Photoshop CS (8) (incl. ImageReady), InDesign (2.0), Illustrator CS (11) and Acrobat Pro (6)…not sure whether that’s representative of a CS bundle or not?
Good point about Quark. I have to admit I’ve moved away from them…!
We’re finding PDF is the standard file format for print, so using specific native file format is just not used anymore. It just comes down what tool suits you best. We’re still firmly on Quark 7, even though another expensive UK priced update is looming to go Quark 8 - I see Keith seemed to give it a good review in the UK MacUser a short while ago.
On 14 Jul 2008, at 17:17, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
At the university I used to teach at, you could get student discounts
of 50% off or more from Adobe. That might be another avenue as well.
Quark are not nearly as generous. But I suspect Adobe is turning a
blind eye to piracy on the one hand while building up their ability
to remote-deactivate legitimate copies of their applications at the
same time. It’s the old heroin dealer approach – first taste’s free…
Walter
On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:06 PM, David Owen wrote:
Could it be Adobe are building market share by having a more lapse
approach to pirated software to gain young users on tight budgets
who will then not use anything else in the future?
David Owen
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