Thanks very much all. I have now decided to either simply purchase a normal CS6 licens or to subscribe to a single app Creative Cloud membershib - directly from (real) Adobe :-) T.
Regardshe latter is a little expensive over time, but then I'm always updated with the latest Photoshop version :-) Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Mar 30, 2013 19:42 "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Mark Roberts > > David Parsons wrote: > >> OEM software means that you buy the software with hardware. It's > >> legal to buy in the US too. The website though is a total scam. > >> > >> One thing that legit sellers used to do back in the day was to > >> sell > >> you OEM versions of Office or Windows with a fan or blank drive > >> panel, > >> or even a screw. This was a long time ago, and that doesn't > >> happen > >> anymore. > > > > Plus, I don't think Adobe *ever* did OEM software. When did anyone > > ever buy a computer with Photoshop pre-installed? > > Some earlier versions of Photoshop might have come bundled or > preloaded. > > When I bought my Nikon CoolScan IV ED, Adobe Photoshop 5 Limited > Edition > came bundled with it. Came in the box as a CD since the CoolScan > didn't > have any capacity to have software preloaded on it. > > It was not upgradable to Photoshop 7 when I bought that version in > 2004, > but I don't know if that was because it was too far down-level by the > time I wanted to upgrade or if it had never been upgradable. > > Seems to me it *should* have been upgradable to the regular version > of > Photoshop 5 while that was still the current version, which should > then > subsequently have been upgradable to Photoshop 6, Photoshop 7 > > ... but I don't know if it ever was. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

