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I've been following this for a while. There's a link in the CNET article to a thread in the Adobe support forum, that included a post from Adobe's "Don Isaacs." The man's name is actually Dov Isaacs and he posted in the thread to say that Adobe was definitely NOT giving away free software and that the serial numbers and downloads were intended for people who actually owned that old software. That thread has now been deleted from Adobe's forum.
I wonder what we can infer from the deletion of his semi-official statement?
The company didn’t take the CS2 page down, though, or add a warning or explanatory message, or do anything else to keep people away.
In fact, Adobe has done the opposite. Initially you needed to log in via your Adobe account to view the download page; now it's freely accessible to everyone. It looks like the company have accepted that there’s no putting the cat back in the bag, and whatever the original intention, CS2 is now available for free.
Maybe so. I'm thinking it's either that a decision was made to do this and was not communicated well internally or that the company decided to make something official after realizing that they had unwittingly enabled something that could both be popular and sell some software in the long term.
If I had to get out my magic ball Bo it says this wasn't intentional and if they could retract it they would. At this point they probably figure it's pointless anyway and the only thing that could come out of it is bad PR.
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