On 17/01/2013 12:29 AM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So because news editors who have nothing to do with Adobe nor asked them
> before publishing their articles claimed that it's free, Apple should
> somehow comply? Why, exactly?

No - my point was simply that *a lot* of people genuinely thought this 
stuff was free. Even people who should supposedly know better. Plus, 
their propagation of this idea does nothing to enlighten the general 
public that this stuff actually isn't free.

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