As if the reduced pricing on Flex Builder 3, and the $99 upgrade wasn’t enough, now students and educational faculty can get Flex Builder 2, free of charge:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071024/20071023006845.html?.v=1.
Well, not NOW now, but early November. Practically now. 
Adobe rocks ! being in ‘love’ with Flex, i had hard times pushing it in the academic area, but now with a free of charge state of the art IDE for doing Flex Apps…you can be sure that you will see lots of academic projects involving Flex
Long live Flex
What about us end developer who earn a shit load of money from the tool!!!????
Spend some of that money on the tool!
I’m really glad they are *finally* doing this. I wish they had done it a year agThere has been a ton of interest from everyone I’ve shown Flex to at my University.