photoshop / cs2 not free

Thanks for the heads up.
I have been using Photoshop 6 for a long long time and this is a great opportunity to upgrade.

They are probably wanting users to migrate to their new cloud subscription service so this is a good PR device.

Awesome. This is very good. Thanks, Fog. I love Illustrator and Photoshop. Haven't been able to buy them for a while cuz of my music and video editing software expenditures.

Unless Adobe is trolling the Likes of Forbes, CNET, GIZMODO, etc... this is for realz.

The site is just getting mangled because so many people are hopping on it. I hope I don't miss out. 

EDIT: Apparently they were... but perhaps unintentionally.

AAAARRRRGH!!!

hoax: http://www.forbes.com/sit...applications-for-free/

Adobe (and i like the staff at adobe) is not known for giving away anything. Someone confused the downloads they are making available for people who already own these older products because they are doing away with the server that hosts them for those who need to reinstall.

It's too late for those poor bastards now. It's in the open. With serial numbers and tens of thousands have already downloaded.

I'm going to uninstall Audition 3 now- oh well, good while it lasted!

ampfixer


April fools comes early.

well certain big name trusted sites shouldn't have promoted it then without contacting adobe

I think its terrible!!  

Gizmodo, mashable, and all the other, "12 reasons I had to quite reading linkedIN," blogs are 4th rate media outlets...

I have more respect for the National Enquirer.

thing is it's not far from the norm.. e.g. thq freebie game... and the arturia moog thing a while back

and adobe pretty much left their links open .. the links I got linked directly to adobe.. so you think.. must be legit then

Fog, think of it this way. there are lots of companies that use the method of letting you download the program but make you activate i separately. if some prankster wanted to tell everyone the product was free and put up a legit link to the install file, it would seem legit until the person installed and realized they had been duped, not by the company but by the person who put up the link misrepresenting what that link meant.

tons of companies offer the install file in a very easy to get manner, if someone happens to provide you the link. If you had not been directed to that very spot, i highly doubt you would have just stumbled upon it. Adobe is actually the only true victim in this. adobe and many other companies have offered files in this manner without a hitch. Cakewalk has offered files in this manner and if someone had posted it in a blog, something similar could have occured. It just was not accompanied by someone posting links with misleading information. It's not like somebody is sitting at adobe's various offices monitoring web traffic every second 24/7. It's easy to be a monday morning qb, but i'm not sure if my first guess to unusually high traffic would have been "i wonder if some idiot blogger lied about us having free software". In fact, I would guess they went through other troubleshooting procedures before.

I guarantee adobe isn't going to do much more than offer obligatory apologies. At the most they may offer a discount on the products they do sale. They are certainly not going give away CS2 or even offer it for sale at a discount. Adobe hates putting it's legacy products in circulation, hence their upgrade policies that make it disadvantageous to skip upgrades. Your best bet may be finding someone with an old license that is willing to sell to you for dirt cheap.

i was just throwing out options if it was something you truly needed.