I'll be danged and double-dipped! The existence of Blender and Make Human does get me thinking... given Blender as a base, how much work it would be for a programmer knowledgeable with Poser file formats to import Poser characters, and add some Poser-like posing. Almost becomes feasible. Not quite though -- still too big to do "for free". Need a solution somewhere in between "locked into one vendor so an application doesn't do what I want" and "open source so I can't protect my hard work and make a living". But this REALLY has me thinking. There must be SOME legitimate way to "have an open source app that is free", yet have SOMETHING that one can make a living on. Maybe offering some niche service that relies on the existence of the free app, but isn't free itself... No, I don't quite believe it makes sense. By definition, if customers aren't paying for XYZ, then XYZ does NOT generate as much resources (money) for its evolution than does ABC, which is paid for. Kind of like Microsoft versus Linux: they both have their place, but only Microsoft could invest $1 billion dollars, to make a breakthrough technology such as .NET. Sorry, I just went OT... I'm betting DAZ Studio can provide a middle ground. Look, we don't NECESSARILY need "Open Source" to acheive what you dream of. What we need is to much more effectively "build on each other's work". This simply wasn't practical in the "stone age" way of writing applications, prior to object-oriented programming, components, scripting, XML. Been too busy to invest programming effort in DAZ Studio yet, but if their app is built as a set of building blocks that could be programmed from .NET, then I and others could whip out some VERY interesting enhancements, and make them available cheap. Some people would even choose to provide those enhancements in source form, as they wouldn't have been that time-consuming to write in the first place...