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I'm not really sure encouraging people to use really old versions of your software is a smart strategy.

For one, it's unsupported and doesn't run so great on modern hardware and operating systems.

Why? Just because it's old does not mean it's bad. And unsupported is great for them - they don't have to spend resources supporting it!

Wouldn't the whole point be to impress people with CS2 so that they upgrade to a new version and Adobe gets paid? So... yeah, it needs to work and it needs at least basic support. If I download my "free" version of Photoshop and the installer crashes I am less likely to buy the new version.

A crippled version of the most current version of the software would make much more sense.

I think you're reaching too far - 7 year old, 4 versions obsolete software isn't even worth pirating today. This isn't an advertisement.

I disagree. CS2 could do almost everything I'm doing with PS today. To take even more extreme example, I would be pretty happy with MS Word 1997 if I never had to open new document formats introduced in the later versions. Yes, it's 15 years old and I don't even know how many versions obsolete.

It still seems to contain an unpatched code execution vulnerability from 2010, fixed in CS5 and up [1], I'd say that's "bad enough" to warrant not using it.

[1] : http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-30.ht...

They've also made Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 available for download. How many security holes does that have by now?

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