Am 18.01.2013 16:53, schrieb Warp:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> See my recent speculations: I really think they /want/ to give away the
>> stuff away for free for anyone to try, with the aim to get people hooked
>> to buy the newer versions (note the CS6 advertisement on the page!), but
>> can't do so legally due to some 3rd party intellectual property in CS2.
>> Codecs, color management stuff, fonts - whatever.
>
> Exactly which law supports the notion that "you can use my intellectual
> property in a commercial program but not in a free (but closed-source)
> program"?
>
> If Adobe has acquired the license eg. for a library for commercial purposes,
> what kind of law would stop them from not charging any money for the
> softare? (And why would the library owner care, as long as Adobe pays them
> the proper licensing fees?)

You know, some license fees are due on a per-copy basis (actually I 
/think/ it's pretty common). And I do /not/ think that Adobe would want 
to /pay/ for people to use their old software.

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