12-09-2008, 11:51 AM
I think it's really a disservice when a company determines that, because they don't "support" something anymore that they still won't make a best effort attempt (esp. for one of those phone calls that no doubt presents an option for you to pay a fee with a credit card to speak with an support engineer) to get it to work when it can be done. As in this case.
I also have to question the quality of activation code when it doesn't work after just a couple OS generations - and moreover, when will Adobe deliberately break their activation interface since the product is old and unsupported, forcing folks to upgrade?
After all, you only own a license for the software and in that license I'm sure it says something to the effect of Adobe being able to change the terms of the license as they see fit, including no longer providing activation for the product at all, and better yet, they could probably provide you an update for the software that would disable it completely because it's "too old." They wouldn't put it that way, they'd claim it was to protect you from security problems or some such...
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I also have to question the quality of activation code when it doesn't work after just a couple OS generations - and moreover, when will Adobe deliberately break their activation interface since the product is old and unsupported, forcing folks to upgrade?
After all, you only own a license for the software and in that license I'm sure it says something to the effect of Adobe being able to change the terms of the license as they see fit, including no longer providing activation for the product at all, and better yet, they could probably provide you an update for the software that would disable it completely because it's "too old." They wouldn't put it that way, they'd claim it was to protect you from security problems or some such...
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