>> Let's try another example:
>>
>> Suppose a book shop has a pile of several books outside, with a sign
>> saying "free books!" So I pick one up, and walk off with it.
>
> There was no sign on the Adobe page saying you could download the
> software for free. Bad analogy.

No. But it's a download page with no indication that this stuff is *not* 
supposed to be free. And apparently half the Internet genuinely mistook 
this stuff for being free; there's a bazillion news articles about how 
Adobe has decided to make their old products free. I read several of 
these before I found one with an actual retraction on it.

In summary, if I hadn't gone out of my way to look, I'd have no idea 
that this was actually a mistake and it wasn't supposed to be free. And 
it seems plenty of journalists made the exact same mistake...

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