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- desmo
i want to purchase a 15"pb, but one of the reasons why i dont want to do it is because buying the software for it is like buying another computer. i need all the standard design software.
have all you guys actually bought all your software or are you just 'borrowing' it from someone?
- JazX0
borrowing is hard to define for many
- desmo0
'borrowing' is the nice way of saying it....
i meant to say stolen software.
- auricom0
bought my own.
if you have stuff from adobe, i believe you can call and get it for an upgrade price or something.
- lvl_130
friends don't let friends borrow. they just give them a copy.
- JazX0
find a student and get him to buy you an educational discounted copy of whatever. you pay him
- todelete__20
if you get a mac download limewire.
once installed search for the programs you need. that's how a buddy of mine did it. *cough
- Soler0
Or, if you have the sofware at work, get it from there. Most licenses (including Adobe) allow a user to have the same copy at home and work. They just can't be open at the same time.
- JazX0
lol, yeahhhhhh and I buy all my mp3's for FMT hahaa ;)
- ribit0
I think the license says it can be installed on two computers but only used by one user (i.e. It can be open on two computers at once, as long as you are the only user)
Am I the only one who actually buys all this stuff?
Didnt get a great deal on CS1.. GoLive couldnt handle our site at all (unusable), and Adobe couldnt solve it, wouldnt refund, couldnt supply replacement CS1 CD's when I lost one (I asked a bit late apparently)... Now have CS2 and still dont know if GoLive will actually work with our site...(its the biggest site ever made in GoLive I think)...
- JG_LB0
any software is expensive... not just for big macs
- MLP0
i thought with the educational versions you aren't supposed to use them for commercial use? but really, how would they find out?
i can get an educational version of CS2 ultra cheap, but i wouldn't want to be running a business with it if it could bring heat
- auricom0
i have bad luck so i don't fuck with that stuff. i bought it a few years ago and have been hitting up the upgrades ever since.
small business loan helped me out.
- myobie0
you can get edu price 330$'s at http://www.ccvsoftware.com
if you are a student, do it...
if you are not, do what you want...no body cares...just like buying at upgrade price without actually having an old version...
just saying that adacromedia will still make dat monay
- MLP0
is that the educational version or just a special academic price? my school has some thing with adobe and the educational version is stil something like $600 for CS2
- Hym0
I expected more from designers, you are in a similar boat as software developers that don't sell physical products but ideas and creative services. Sure big companies wont go out of business by it but where is your honour ? If you can't pay for Photoshop then use something else or simply don't buy that powerbook and balance out your budget, what do you need and then what you want.
Do you only steal software because you can't get caught ? If that's the case you don't have the right to complain when somebody steals some of your work. But with such attitude you probably won't because what keeps you from stealing others work anyway if you don't respect anything ?
If you are dead poor but got mad skills there is another way to get it all free, become a beta tester,
- D_Dot0
Buy an older version like 5 or something and then get the upgrade. You save a little that way. Or... it's the Gimp for you fella!
- yurimon0
It sucks being economically challenged. To bad there is no software welfare. Peoples ideas of ownership is getting more warped as lawyers play with definitions and words.
- horton0
KDX, Limewire, Aquisition, Hotline, SolarSeek, BitTorrent...
.. but of course i don't use any of these.
- designerror0
Most people don't realize that all Adobe/MM software calls home to a special serial server with your IP when the serial # is typed in and software installed to check if it's been used before. So if you have a hot version you can be sure they know all about it.
But they have a 30 days try out period with most of their software and there are legit ways around that.
- jDs0
Are you using it professionally? If so, I would say buy it this time - pony up - take the bitter pill - and then keep upgrading as the years go by...
If you're using it for *mostly personal projects, then f-em - find it on a torrent...y'aarrrrr matey.