by Brad » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:08 pm
If you're in school (or know somebody in school), look into academic versions of the programs. It's essentially the entire full program for a fraction of the cost. The caveat however is that, if you ever end up using the software for commercial purposes and you're then audited and they find out it's the educational license instead of the commercial license, you can be in some legal hot water (though, probably less hot than if it were a pirated version).
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