" Pengy, maybe its not a desire to be competitive with DAZ as much as it is a challenge to develop a new type of content..."

Wouldn't call 'em "new," exactly... but that's a nitpick. What got me to thinking about is a look at the industry at large: Movie houses are doing most of their stuff in-house instead of renting places like Zygote to make mesh, and the medical industry is too busy trying to comply with Oxley-Sarbanes/HIPAA to afford any frippery out of the IT budget like buying 3d meshes of people and people-parts. So where does that leave Zygote? Looking for new markets. Their CEO knows full well from previous experiences in the industry that games makers do their own in-house stuff (with waaaaaaaaay lower polycount requirements, among a zillion other factors that don't fit into Zygote's business visions), but got to see Poserdom up-close and personal during his tenure at DAZ. So, it follows that Zygote sees money out here in Poserdom. So, why not?

Hell, it's business, not personal, so I can understand the reasons why. It's just that there seems to be a lack of forethought into it, and I really don't want to see Poserdom get smashed up-side the head with what one apt poster @ RFI termed "The Mother of All Merchant Resource Kit" fiascoes, or anything similar.

We'll table the OSS angle for a moment, mostly because I don't know (yet) what they'll come up with, if at all. a whole lot will depend on that, otherwise they're just another RDNA, another DAZ, another content creator.

As long as we as a community know up-front what's going down, I have no problems with it. OTOH, I wonder if this whole venture on Zygote's part has even been thought through to the next fiscal quarter, let alone year... (man, must be nice to have one hundred lawyers on retainer, but I'd really hate to see the bill :/ )

/P

Message edited on: 05/19/2005 15:31