I can't see what all the fuss about DAZ is all about. DAZ|Studio isn't quite there yet, but as nobody is charging us a single penny for it, what's there to complain about? At the full retail prices a lot of the DAZ stuff is beyond my spending budget, but through sales, vouchers, giveaways and free Platinum Club membership tryouts I got to own a lot of DAZ stuff for very reasonable prices, and generally the quality is excellent; I cannot see DAZ as being overly greedy from my own experience. Yes, Michael and Victoria in all their incarnations have become the de facto Poser characters, and there's hardly any getting around them - but isn't this monopoly caused by the fact that nobody else created any serious competition for them? Of course, DAZ wants to sell stuff, and undoubtedly they are hoping that a lot of people will buy the morphsets to the now free base Mike and Vicky 3 characters: that's the sort of angle a lot of the DAZ freebies have - but then again, nobody forces us to buy anything at all and the Base characters can be used on their own, with free textures and clothing to be found at sites like Renderosity. And even if DAZ would stop supporting Poser - we still have loads of other sites creating and offering Poser stuff, like Renderosity, RDNA, Poser World, Poser Style, 3DCommune, BBay, Animotions and all those others: I'd be surprised if DAZ held the keys to Poser's survival. I doubt if Poser would be where it is today if there wouldn't have been a Zygote/DAZ releasing its first Poser add ons and Victoria and Michael characters. And as far as the competition goes: it's bound to keep both Curious Labs and Daz on their toes: the Poser community can only benefit from that, the way I see it....