Well, the summary pasted in the post mentions “VM” about a dozen times

I’d go with symlinks, so both you and software not strictly following standards know where to put and find stuff.

I don’t know, but this article is about their mobile network provider hardware / telecom infrastructure division, where Nokia is one of the bigger vendors.

We already have the private copying levy in Germany and some other countries, where you have to pay a fee for several products (printers, scanners, storage media like HDDs, SSDs, SD cards and thumb drives…) due to the potential that you could do (legal!) private copies of copyrighted media on them. The copyright collectives can set the amount of the fees freely (and it’s ridiculously high).

This comes shockingly close to the concept already.