Quote - Frankly, I don't see why you "can't have it both ways".  For that matter -- I don't understand why this situation even falls under the rubric of "having it both ways".  Lots of companies produce & sell more than one software package at a time -- and they still manage to support them all.  You might argue the tack that e-frontier is somehow incapable of preforming such a 'delicate' balancing act between apps as is performed successfully by many, many other companies -- but I tend to doubt it.  There's no reason why they can't do both "hobbyist" and "pro" versions of the software -- and do it while supporting ALL of their customers.

 

It seems very likely to me that you've never participated in a large scale software rollout.  "Many, many" companies simply do not operate that way.  They either develop and software with existing staff, which means that staff is fully utilized while this goes on, or they hire short term labor for the development effort and fire them when done.  The latter is more common for isolated development efforts, but this is a moderate extension of Poser 7, so it'd be madness to use outside staff for that.  Possibly to supplement existing staff, but even then there'd be training time required.  Producing commercial software is not something you do on a casual basis, it's full time work.

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