Hi Mike,

> Speaking of which, God forbid if MoI should ever drink that Kool Aid!
> How bad would that be to get the "moment of inspiration" and be
> CAD-blocked by a message reading "DNS failure, line down, no
> MoI for you!"

I don't have any plans to make MoI totally dependent on cloud services.

A couple of specific features may benefit from it, like the plug-in browser that I was mentioned previously would probably connect to a web server to get the list of all current available plugins and let you download the ones that you want. But a browser/download mechanism like that is a lot different than requiring a connection just to run the program.

Actually the worst thing that can happen with a fully cloud dependent service is not just that your line is currently down, it's that if they decide at some point that you've violated the service agreement and that your entire account is suspended - maybe all due to someone else hacking accounts or something like that. We seem to be on the verge of seeing that kind of thing happening more frequently now.

- Michael