I hate adobe

I'd never thought I'd say thisI have been a user of flash, nice and official, since FLASH 2, when it was still a macromedia product. I was invited and went to flash camp and was one of the speakers when flash-lite was introduced..
Me and adobe, I thought we were chums, but these guys NOW ripped me off.

When cs4 appeared, I upgraded of course. Adobe recognised me as being Dutch and automatically gave me a Dutch version of flash cs4 professional..
Getting used to a new interface is hard enough, but this was nonsense.
They had translated everything, "Actionscript" could only be found as "Handelingen" for instance.

So I called the help desk, explained the problem to a very nice lady, who then said she could exchange the program for an English one.. Oh joy!
She did tell me however, that this would mean that the serial I upgraded from, would become invalid. I could not accept this, because I couldn't work with CS4. If I imported a bitmap to the stage, for example, it crashed. If I touched the text-settings, it crashed. That apart from the language problem, was a deal-breaker for me.

So I explained to her this was NOT an option I also said why. She agreed and said I could exchange the product without canceling the CS3 I upgraded from as long as I would never use the Dutch version of CS4 again. This was not a problem for me, because I couldn't work with it anyway. I only ever used it to open stuff I got from people who were working in cs4 and saving them back to cs3.
So problem solved.. I exchanged the product.

NOW my flash cs3 has crashed. I try to reinstall, but my activation has worn out. Yes, with this new crash I lost another one of those stupid activations. I had allready used up three or something. So I call.
But the guy on the phone tells me, all very polite that he cannot help me.
The serial I upgraded from has been canceled. So now I have two options:
1. buy a new license for adobe CS3 professional (which I don't think they even sell anymore)
2. get one illegally and risk viruses and what not.
AND THIS IS A LEGAL PRODUCT I BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.
Also, this upgrade cs3 pro was a upgrade from flash mx, which was a upgrade from flash 5.. All sitting in on my shelves, useless BECAUSE ADOBE CANCELED THEM!

I cannot reach another conclusion than: I hate adobe. This doesn't make sense anymore.
They are punishing good users, who buy all their stuff, the minute it comes out, because there are illegal copies and hackers.
Up to now, I haven't used any warez, not because I couldn't get them, but because I chose NOT to. I am a programmer and I think when somebody makes a good piece of software they should be rewarded for that.

I am amending this policy. The rewards and the ways of getting them should remain reasonable and Adobe just crossed that line.
So I'm going to try and get a illegal version (it's easy you just search for flash, crack, serialz or warez and make sure you have a GOOD virus scanner installed!) of CS3 professional to finish the job I started when my original official version of CS3 crashed.
I dare them to come after me with their fancy lawyers, I have bought the right to use this program.

I will keep using cs5, of which I have bought the MASTER SUITE recently, but I wouldn't hold my breath until they'll see another penny from me.