The thing about Flash is that it's POSSIBLE to use it for commercial use, and if you're good enough, you can design websites and all that shit for big, huge companies and make a shitload of money. To get good enough at it to do that, you need to start using it when you're young, and doing a bunch of stupid spam flash on Newgrounds, and when you're starting out, you don't have $600 to spend on a piece of fucking software that you may or may not be able to use in the future. At that price, you should pay for it if you can, but you might be making the world a better place by playin the sneak. I'm not encouraging you to do it, I guess I'm just saying that Adobe should sell a basic version for like $30 so you have a reason to buy the $600 version.