A lot of the problem is just the money. People who spend a lot of money and something often seem to need to feel better about their expenditure by looking down on cheaper products, or by emphasizing the good points of theirs and the bad points of yours. Maya costs about 20 times what Poser does, so that's how it goes. If you went in with a demo reel of Maya stuff, and they used Houdini (which runs about 5 times as much as Maya) you might have had the same reaction.

Bottom line is, there's not much you can do about snobbery; some peoples got da affliction, some peoples don't.

Captain Jack