"With any luck Kupa and Larry and some of the other development team will stay in touch and maybe start making the Poser App they wanted to in the first place." Depending upon agreements, this may not be a possibility. It is possible that EGI may have prohibited former employees from making a "Poser clone" or competitive product for X number of years. The penchant for NDAs for anyone/anything even remotely connected with Poser would suggest that such a restriction is a high probability. Given their internal knowledge of how Poser works, it would be likely that they would - either intentionally or not - use protected code and/or techniques that EGI seems to have ownership of. If that turned out to be the case, then EGI could be within their rights to force them to cease working on the project or turn over all profits, etc.