Questor:

"The very limitations of poser preclude any "real" art coming out of it without postwork to correct the very functional errors created by the program's limitations"

But this is true for EVERY 3D program, either a modeller or a renderer or a texturizer.

Noone who is considered a good 3D artist in every art site uses a single app to make his/her images, AFAIK there's always some postwork involved in Photoshop, at least; don't even think about those that pose the figure in Poser and bring it in another workspace, either for a simple render or for adding the ambient around.

Do you really think that an image done in Photoshop alone is "instant art", only because the artist used Photoshop alone???
Returning to the Michelangelo's example, do you really think that the simple use of a scalpel made him an instant artist? Or it was his skill in using it???
Yes, you can laugh at the view of the words "Poser" and "Michelangelo" in the same line, but just think about what he could have made with a Poser base...

And finally, always remember this: if a Maya, Max, or Lightwave user could model quickly a realistic human mesh in the app and pose it, Poser wouldn't even exist and everything about 3D art would be called "pornography".

Rubbermatt:

Some times ago I made a joke about Mac G4s used in the lowest floors of a great firm, when the owner wuold have played with a 2-floor-high Cray in his personal office; the joke was around my friend being a great firm owner...not that that would happen in a couple of days, mind you :-) he is really young...

Suddenly, one Mac entusiast sat at me telling "Mac is used for so and so...here and here...", in a pointless defense of something that would have been clearly outdated at the time my friend would even have became famous.

Problem is: that moron is a PROFESSIONAL, a really big one too, and he sure uses his tools for his works, all his apps are regularly registered, and so on.

Point taken?
If someone is anal about something, pro or not pro, he is anal, period.
He didn't even accept my excuses, he didn't even listened to other board members telling him that that was clearly a joke...