+ purchasing any BMD camera and you usually get a "free" license of DaVinci :) That's how I got my license many moons ago.

Now BMD have "prosumer" cameras available too that doesn't cost half a liver, which the second-hand market seems flush with too, so you can grab really good hardware for "cheap", and get excellent software with it too as the license is movable across hosts :)

I'm surprised to hear the software moves with the hardware! This and the other comments help explain the spread.