Tom Harrington: That's an interesting point, and one I've seen elsewhere. If it works well enough, this could solve the biggest disk space usage for a lot of people, and make the Air and other small laptops/netbooks, with their small drives, more palatable.

OddyOh: It really is lousy how slowed innovation is outside the US, due to licensing. You wind up with very unhappy potential customers who either have few/no choices, or just resort to piracy. It's a losing situation for most everyone involved.