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The education license is for use in educational environments only - schools, universities, colleges etc. The software manufacturers recognise that many educational institutions cannot afford large licence fees and may need to install the software on many machines to service large class sizes. They also recognise the need for educational institutions to use top quality, industry-recognised software in training situations.
The main factor is that the students/teachers are not producing work from this software for profit.
The manufacturers feel that if work that is being done using their software is made for profit (that is a business is using the software to produce saleable product) then they can afford to pay full price and factor that price into their cost structure as any business would for any other resource they use.