Am 17.01.2013 20:56, schrieb Warp:

>> "While it could be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free,
>> Adobe did it to help its customers."
>
>> So they do explicitly acknowledge that this interpretation is possible,
>> and they're not explicitly saying that it is wrong; they're just saying
>> that it wasn't their primary motivation.
>
> You are reading between the lines. "They are not explicitly saying that
> the interpretation is wrong", therefore the interpretation is correct?
>
> To me "while it could be interpreted" means quite unambiguously "that
> interpretation is incorrect." Else they would say that it is correct.

That, too, is reading between the lines.

As I said, it might well be that they would run into trouble with 3rd 
parties if they explicitly offered the software for free to anyone. 
Adobe's behaviour is pretty much what I'd expect in such a case.

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