Are free-text attributes not possible?  Why?

I'm pretty new to MDM, just learning really.  I've done some complicated imports, in cluding hierarchies and taxonomies.
At my company we have product records that contain product specs.  There are about 200 different specs that different products CAN have, but any particular product only may need about 20, depending on it's product type.  A perfect situation for a taxonomy with attributes, right?
It would be, but although many specs have particular pre-defined choices (like attribute choices) , many are free-text fields where the user enters information that can't be boiled into pre-set choices.
After playing with it in MDM for a while, it becomes clear that you can't have taxonomy attributes in MDM that are free text.  That seems kind of silly to me... am I missing something?  Is there a way to do this?  If not, why not?  It seems like a useful feature.  I can't be the first person to think of this..... 
Any help, explanations, or ideas for alternate methods would be very greatly appreciated...
Steve

You aren't missing anything. Attributes can only be numeric (or couple numeric) or text. The text attributes are only available as lookups and cannot be set up as free-form text entries. Fields can be set up as free-form text, but have to be applied at a global level to everything.
The only reason I can think as to why it has been developed this way is because of the search capabilities built into MDM. It would probably be difficult to have the parametric searching with free-text attributes, much easier when all the data is in a lookup. Another reason is just to help maintain standards within your repository. You could enter a message with SAP to find out all the reasons why it is this way and possibly enter an enhancement request for future versions.
Basically the only way around this currently is to use the text attribute available. You could allow the users to right click on the attribute in Record Mode and select Modify to add entries to the attribute as needed.
This obviously doesn't solve your problem, but hopefully helps clear it up a bit.
Regards,
Tim

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