Well, I was trying to not get into the details of the first company's response because I did not want to bias my posts one way or the other to other posters. Bu

Well, I was trying to not get into the details of the first company's response because I did not want to bias my posts one way or the other to other posters. But the response and I am paraphrasing was "I am a small shop, I work hard for my money and I am tired of people asking for hand outs, The pro version is for professionals and given that your daughter is not a professional she does not need the pro version" This is not the exact wording but close. The second response was, paraphrased: While we understand the needs of educational software, we cannot offer educational discounts for non accredited educational use. The video codecs that we use require us to pay licensing fees for each seat sold unless that seat is used for accredited educational use. I am really sorry but please see our position, when developers salaries are added in we will eat the cost of those codecs if we sold the software at our educational price.