Why I'm Finished with Adobe
In a word, it’s activation.
I bought a copy of Photoshop CS2 for the Mac and initially installed it on my dual G5 PowerMac. Last night, I decided it made sense to move it to my iMac; so, I called up the PowerMac’s copy of Photoshop CS2 and preformed the “Transfer Activation” routine, receiving a message that the copy of it was deactivated on that computer. Fine. I moved it to my iMac and activated it there without a problem. But then I tried to load Photoshop CS2 on my PowerBook, something permitted under the license. When I tried to activate it, it told me I had already hit the maximum number of activations, something that is certainly NOT true.
My recourse now is to call Adobe on the phone and convince their support folks that I’m not a criminal. I’m not going to do that. I don’t have enough hours in the day to get done what I need to now. I’m not going to waste any time trying to convince Adobe to let me run their product, something I’ve already paid them for. Adobe doesn’t give a damn about the time this debacle costs me, and time is money for me as well. So, I’m going to buy a copy of Illustrator CS2 (because I want the Live Trace feature) and then I’m hanging it up. I had wanted to upgrade Go Live and InDesign from CS to CS2 versions as well, but it’s not going to happen.
The friggin software companies have been using technology to hold its customers accountable; likewise, we need to hold them accountable for the time we’ve lost and the hassle we’ve endured. The best way to do that is to simply stop buying their products and find other ways to get our work done. I'll chance buying Illustrator CS2, but that's the last Adobe product containing activation I'm going to buy.
I'm going to take a much harder look at Open Source software from here on out.
I bought a copy of Photoshop CS2 for the Mac and initially installed it on my dual G5 PowerMac. Last night, I decided it made sense to move it to my iMac; so, I called up the PowerMac’s copy of Photoshop CS2 and preformed the “Transfer Activation” routine, receiving a message that the copy of it was deactivated on that computer. Fine. I moved it to my iMac and activated it there without a problem. But then I tried to load Photoshop CS2 on my PowerBook, something permitted under the license. When I tried to activate it, it told me I had already hit the maximum number of activations, something that is certainly NOT true.
My recourse now is to call Adobe on the phone and convince their support folks that I’m not a criminal. I’m not going to do that. I don’t have enough hours in the day to get done what I need to now. I’m not going to waste any time trying to convince Adobe to let me run their product, something I’ve already paid them for. Adobe doesn’t give a damn about the time this debacle costs me, and time is money for me as well. So, I’m going to buy a copy of Illustrator CS2 (because I want the Live Trace feature) and then I’m hanging it up. I had wanted to upgrade Go Live and InDesign from CS to CS2 versions as well, but it’s not going to happen.
The friggin software companies have been using technology to hold its customers accountable; likewise, we need to hold them accountable for the time we’ve lost and the hassle we’ve endured. The best way to do that is to simply stop buying their products and find other ways to get our work done. I'll chance buying Illustrator CS2, but that's the last Adobe product containing activation I'm going to buy.
I'm going to take a much harder look at Open Source software from here on out.
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