Given: Daz has a right to their property.

Given: there is no COERCIVE monopoly here, no law compelling anyone to use DAZ intellectual property

Given: notheless, DAZ has a huge following (a de facto monopoly), acheived by marketing, confidence (mentioned above), professionalism, and because they tapped into a certain 'look' which makes people go mad. Plus, much as I despise V3/M3 more than Blackhearted, if that is possible, there are a few good things about the models.

Given: to fight this with a non-Daz-owned mesh/JP system that nonethless would 'take' Vicki textures and conforming clothing is a loser because: 1) DAZ would take legal action if the model took off sufficiently to be a threat and 2) the model would look/bend like V. WTF is the point of that? The only point would be to 'scoop' into a market forged fair and square by DAZ. Proposed: decline that temptation.

Alternate: win a new market fair and square, and attract away a good amount of the Vicki steamroller. How?

It's early days, as they say in England, but what if the mesh of Jessi is teriffic. What if the default morphs give the user power, real power. What if Jessi can be sculpted, body and face, with the included morphs, into something that will make the V-addicted market 'emotionally erect?' (Thanks steve martin.) What if you can get Pamela Sue Jessi? Posermatic took Judy+EJ and made Nikki, for heaven's sake. We could get NakedJessiInATempleWithASword and make V really mad. (please note: I would not personally participate in this last, I will be making my slim dancers and verismo characters outta J/J)

There is still the catch-22 noted above....vendors won't support with "porting" of clothing/textures because 'will this catch on enough to justify?' while sales of Poser6 will be slow because there are not enough add-ons. This is the Gordian Knot that must be broken.

Does anyone know if Jessi/James are STRICTLY P6? What if they can live in PPP? 3Dream gives perfect instructions to those owning licenses to both P5 AND P4 how to go get poser5woman.obj out of your P5 folder and put her in your P4 runtime and off you go! What if CL made J/J object files avail for a small fee to licensed P4/5 owners?

Vendors: would you port and or create new if you were sure there were no problem with contract/copyright violation attack from DAZ and you saw J/J start to gain momentum?

Key strategic points:

1. Daz cannot legally protect the sex-look that currently opens wallets.
2. Daz's prices are too high
3. J/J are free
4. J/J ARE Poser.

::::: Opera ::::

Message edited on: 03/18/2005 23:27