Help regarding buying Adobe product

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Hi all,
Was not sure where to post it, so doing it on general section.

I have a pretty twisted query.

One of my friend has to buy a Adobe product for license compliance.
Initially he wanted to buy it directly off the net. But here is the catch.
US price even for the boxed version comes up more than 10k cheaper than the Asian store download version. Being a very small time guy, he wants to save as much as he can.

We are bit not sure on how it goes in terms of billing and Licensing parts. Has anyone here dealt with such things?

Please do comment/suggest the best way to go about it. Im not asking for anyone to help regarding getting it. Just need some input on the License and compliance part.

TIA

Deepak
 
random2 said:
Hi all,
Was not sure where to post it, so doing it on general section.

I have a pretty twisted query.

One of my friend has to buy a Adobe product for license compliance.
Initially he wanted to buy it directly off the net. But here is the catch.
US price even for the boxed version comes up more than 10k cheaper than the Asian store download version. Being a very small time guy, he wants to save as much as he can.

We are bit not sure on how it goes in terms of billing and Licensing parts. Has anyone here dealt with such things?

Please do comment/suggest the best way to go about it. Im not asking for anyone to help regarding getting it. Just need some input on the License and compliance part.

TIA

Deepak
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Licensing doesnt work that way. If your friend is in India, he will most probably need a license bought in India. Legally speaking, usually these companies dont allow you to use the same license in some other country. Else everyone would do the same thing your friend is planning to do :P

Simple solution: Just contact adobe support. Tell them if you have a license in the US and are moving to India, can you still use the same product here in India? Also let us know as well :)
 
techie_007 said:
Licensing doesnt work that way. If your friend is in India, he will most probably need a license bought in India. Legally speaking, usually these companies dont allow you to use the same license in some other country. Else everyone would do the same thing your friend is planning to do :P

Simple solution: Just contact adobe support. Tell them if you have a license in the US and are moving to India, can you still use the same product here in India? Also let us know as well :)
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Sorry for the late reply. Was out of town.

That sounds pretty absurd (not your reply, but the rule if its true). But its disheartening that its priced quite high in emerging markets where these guys are trying to pushin legal usage of software.

Adobe support will always tell whats best for them. Legal opinion is that a License is a License unless it clearly specifies geographic limitations. For that will have to go through the License itself. Maybe will post back what he ended up doing.

Thanks for the help.
 
Can you try ordering the Trial Version of the Master Suite DVD ($15.99) here in the USA. Then you could always license the product afterward legally by calling Adobe and paying for it :) I am sure that if he was only interested in 1 or 2 of the products, then he need only license the ones hw wants.
 
PiXeLpUsHeR said:
Can you try ordering the Trial Version of the Master Suite DVD ($15.99) here in the USA. Then you could always license the product afterward legally by calling Adobe and paying for it :) I am sure that if he was only interested in 1 or 2 of the products, then he need only license the ones hw wants.
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The price I have mentioned is for download version. The problem is we cant use an Indian address in US Adobe store. There is a Asia-pacific store which has the same thing for $285 more.

To be clear who is the licensee - The person who is billed for or on whose name the software is registered to with Adobe (if there is anything like that)?
Never bought anything from these biggies except MS which is lot easier. God, I love SME/ISVs whose licensing process is lot easier and dont have this geographical pricing mess.

PiXeLpUsHeR - Thanks for the suggestion
 
random2 said:
Sorry for the late reply. Was out of town.

That sounds pretty absurd (not your reply, but the rule if its true). But its disheartening that its priced quite high in emerging markets where these guys are trying to pushin legal usage of software.

Adobe support will always tell whats best for them. Legal opinion is that a License is a License unless it clearly specifies geographic limitations. For that will have to go through the License itself. Maybe will post back what he ended up doing.

Thanks for the help.
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Exactly, so just ask them to see if the license has any country based limitations.
 
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