Originally posted by Oldbayrunner 
Now for the OP's delima. There are contributing factors that can affect your PS opening of a psd file or out of memory errors in general. Whether your system is 32 or 64 bit and how much actual ram you have to start with coupled with background running processes your computer is operating at a given time. The more processes you are running using ram the less ram photoshop has to use.
Try this. First reset your preferences if that doesn't work then try Enlarging the capacity of your file handling in Performance. These usually are the culprits for out of memory errors in photoshop. Then if that fails try running your task manager and give High priority to Photoshop or shut down some un needed processes. If none of these work then there are other possible contributing factors.
hmm.. I guess this isn't saying otherwise in your opinion...
At first I thought they were in-fact giving it away as that's rather common for companies to make old unsupported software available for free (or sometimes open-source). (And it was widely reported that CS2 was now free.) But them saying "free, but not really" even though they are giving you a serial number (rather than just saying use the one you have) is just typical Adobe in my book and completely consistent with what I (and many others) have considered part of their basic strategy for a long time (but no longer with the CC model) to make sure Photoshop and the other graphic products are the de-facto standard. And again, I'm not faulting them, that's smart.
Maybe a better term than "strategy" would be their "considered response" to piracy, i.e. I don't they on day one they said "let's have some piracy!" but certainly they had to decide how their resources were going to be used. And since any analysis of the situation would have to include "what would happen if we only made a fuss about high-profile and obvious egregious violations" (like your court cases) and "what if we didn't spend a whole ton of money on anti-copying technical measures" as options, and that the results of such analysis would likely come back as something like "If we took these two options, given our products and this marketplace, we'd only become more dominant in terms of market share, and we'd make more money long-term even if we are risking officially selling less units now (but our products would be used in much greater numbers than anyone else's even if we didn't get paid for them all right now, our competition wouldn't be selling their units either) . And so it is not only cheaper up-front than fighting everything tooth and nail, but such strenuous fighting would actually be to our own detriment and be disproportionately helpful to our competition in the long-term." And so after such consideration, is it not plausible that they said, "Yeah, let's do that."? I think so. Or any other scenario you wish to come up with, the facts are the facts. Their software HAS been very easy to pirate for the average non-professional user (that can't afford it) since forever and they've done little about it. So the question is WHY? And the answer is that it is good for them.
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