Tucows obviously got permission from creators and I'll bet were denied by a few. What can Poser do that MAX cannot? MAX is I think a $3,000 to $5,000 dollar program It is in that range however. Poser isn't trying to be a MAX or a Lightwave or even a Maya. Its purposly a lower powered program that is easy to use. When I first got Poser 2(I think it was) there biggest attribute was non raytraced shadow maps. At the time that was awesome since it was a fairly cheap application and its shadow mapping feature was faster than any program out there. Actully the bigest attribute of all was how fast it was able to render stills and animations with great higher end 3D quality. Poser will not likely be great totally on its own but more of a supporting program to the biggies like MAya TrueSpace, LW and MAX JanP And no. Dunga could not always sell the programs unless the creator said that they did nopt care what was done with them. Dunga would have to ask permission to do that too.