- and Ken Musgrave within earshot nodding in agreement...

The Doc worked with the MetaCreations code - that's how he knows.

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• As stable as my version 4, yup. Both quite stable for me.**

Is that MetaCreations version 4 or the Corel patched version 4? ;-)

- they latched onto a handful of their more classic programs and continued development with them. (Painter is an awesome program, btw.)

Painter was another import from MetaCreations. Painter continued development under Corel and they still own it. That's because Painter was commercially successful. Bryce wasn't.

- I wouldn't say merely at all, myself.

True, that was most uncharitable of me. I should have said "primarily". ;-)

Likewise I have no problem with DAZ's 'content' commercial model; it just doesn't interest me or benefit Bryce in a way that interests me.

- I have had no part in DAZ's software build-up of Bryce 6.0 (dagnabit)    ;o(

Comes as a surpise to me. Genuinely thought you were on the Beta team. I would have thought they would have wanted you on board. Perhaps they saw your Renderosity employment as a theoretical potential conflict.

Oh well, nice to know you're just blathering like the rest of us. ;-)