Which is reasonable in principle, but when they sell the exclusivity, they’re and to put that money back into their research expenses.
I’m okay with public money going to funding research projects that become private profit for a limited time. I’m a capitalist system, which is what we’re operating in, this seems to be the most effective. Government partially funds otherwise unprofitable R&D, companies make the product, and ordinary people are able to buy it at reasonable prices, and once exclusivity ends, anyone can make it.
Maybe. If you can create the partition and set your hypervisor to use it as the virtual disk, then yes. But it might actually require a whole drive to do that. I can’t promise that it would easily convert from one to the other though. I would just go right for the dual-boot and use it as much as you can.