Adobe laying off 600, citing weak demand for CS4 suites

[laarree]

moviebiz, I had never heard of Flexnet before your mention of it. I've also never had a problem
with Adobe CSx licensing either on my MacPro at home, MacPro at work or on my Powerbook,
nor has Little Snitch ever alerted me to a process named Flexnet. Did some googling on it and
saw some Adobe tech notes on it, and found the FLEXnet Publisher folder in the top-level
Library/Preferences folder.

[gabester]

I've been away from supporting graphic designers on Adobe CS for a few years now, but even back in the CS2 days the registration scheme seemed overly burdensome relative to the likelihood of piracy. And the lack of compelling feature upgrades... It would be interesting to me to call around to former clients and see which ones were still using CS2. Then again, CS3 had native intel support, so that alone was probably a compelling enough upgrade.

Still, there was a time when I thought about purchasing Adobe CS myself because I knew how useful its tools could be. Not anymore - since I don't really have serious graphic design needs I'll make due with the Gimp, GraphicConverter, et cetera.
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[moviebiz]

Laarree wrote:
moviebiz, I had never heard of Flexnet before your mention of it. I've also never had a problem
with Adobe CSx licensing either on my MacPro at home, MacPro at work or on my Powerbook,
nor has Little Snitch ever alerted me to a process named Flexnet. Did some googling on it and
saw some Adobe tech notes on it, and found the FLEXnet Publisher folder in the top-level
Library/Preferences folder.

Flexnet circumvents Little Snitch, so you won't see any messages about it. The only way to block the connections is to reroute them to different IP addresses.

[laarree]

moviebiz wrote:
Flexnet circumvents Little Snitch, so you won't see any messages about it. The only way to block the connections is to reroute them to different IP addresses.

So what is the harm or offense done by Flexnet?

[pixelzombie]

we've had photoshop cs4 for a week and it looks as if this will be the first update that i truly hate and will be using cs3 instead...