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What on earth do you mean? Yes, MS is of course a for-profit company, but the long-term storage situation in academia alone is dire. I know from experience that most research data at my university exist as a single copy on a single external hard drive in a drawer (with a partial disorganised copy currently in processing on a laptop drive somewhere). This may be anything from the only records of a now dead language, or medical research data. Add to this that many seem to "forget" their data when it has been published on. Archiving is a contract with future generations and we are horribly prepared. The storage medium of the rosetta stone, handily beats the flimsy, digital solutions the vast majority use. Or did I completely misunderstand your point?