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- samb0
little snitch is great, didn't realise all that shit was getting sent
- horton0
Little Snitch:
- jDs0
Hym makes a very good point.
If you work off pirated software, then you have zero high ground o stand on when somebody rips off your designs and makes mad money.
The software development argument, though, doesn't hold a lot of water for me - but for a different reason - anyone worth their salt should be running OSS anyway. Anyone who hires an MSFT developer deserves what they get....
- 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.
- 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.
- horton0
KDX, Limewire, Aquisition, Hotline, SolarSeek, BitTorrent...
.. but of course i don't use any of these.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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,
- 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 $600 for CS2
- myobie0
you can get edu price 330$'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
- 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.
- 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
- JG_LB0
any software is expensive... not just for big macs
- 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)...
- JazX0
lol, yeahhhhhh and I buy all my mp3's for FMT hahaa ;)
- 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.
- 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
- JazX0
find a student and get him to buy you an educational discounted copy of whatever. you pay him
- lvl_130
friends don't let friends borrow. they just give them a copy.