Yeah, I don't disagree with any of that. Like I said, I was just making sure I wasn't mistaken about the fact that this is an old policy.
And frankly, I can kind of understand the no-upgrades thing. The academic version of Final Cut is, as far as I know, fully featured in every way. I believe it's bit-for-bit identical to the regular version, except for having a different license code.
Given that, there's nothing stopping somebody (say me) from finding an intern with a valid student ID, getting her to buy it for me, then buying upgrade licenses every couple years forever, ending up with a fully functional (and profitable) Final Cut suite without ever paying for a production license.
So the "no upgrades for you, kiddo" thing doesn't bother me.
My question, though, is whether Apple raised the academic price of Final Cut 7 because they were selling too
many academic licenses, or too
few? I figure it had to have been one or the other, else why change the discount at all?