Any time the name "DAZ" is mentioned, the worldwide doom and gloom scenario eventually has to come out.

EF is less competition to DAZ's model selling business than RDNA or Renderosity, so any speculation on Poser's acquisition won't have any effect on freebies and sales. DAZ doesn't care whether somebody buys one of their models for Studio or Poser. DAZ has been providing freebies long before they even had competition from anybody. The freebies are about getting people to look at the store every week. Sales are about getting people to buy frequently when they might not otherwise want to buy what's offered right away. Those strategies are independent of the competition DAZ has.

If DAZ wanted to cripple their competition, they'd do it with a truly onerous license that forbids anybody selling products, based on their figures, outside of DAZ, and legally enforcing it. Try to imagine the effect that would have on the marketplace. How many stores would be devastated if they could not sell clothes, textures, or add-ons for the Millennium figures?

I don't think any more should be read into DAZ selling Poser than DAZ selling Total Textures, EFrog, or the other commercial products that they've sold in their store.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon