dumping bryce makes no sense. stabilizing bryce and using it as the cheap, low level entry with carrara as the upgrade path for those who outgrow bryce, that makes a lot more sense. developing it further? i don't know about that. from the sounds DAZ made in late january 6.0 was still just in codebase rewrite and "many months away" from release, and now i wouldn't hold my breath for any further feature development. i notice there is still no actual concrete example of why DAZ is hateworthy. i, too, would be interested to hear some of that history i was earlier told i missed.