While I rarely use DS, POunt, the fact of the matter is that they do NOT charge for it, and the poser installed base is growing because of it's free introduction to the poser world. As long as they stick with poser content compatibility, I think its great to have around. Its no worst, and (much better) then some people still hanging onto P4 or Poserpro. At the rate EF is working on new poser releases, DS might well always be a year or two behind feature wise. But IMHO, that's a GOOD thing. It makes EF work harder to make Poser XX a more feature laden valuable purchase. P6 lover here, but the older and "side" compatible programs do have a small niche in my heart.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.