I dunno.. I see it as a way for EF to assure that Poser sticks around. If all poser content was like collada now, and you could use it and pose it in any 3d application out there, would anyone have bought poser 7? Would they have bothered with carerra even?

Odds are, both those applications anmd even Ds would be on thier way out as dinosaurs.

While I really like compatibility, if EF couldn't sell any more copies of poser, where would be the incentive to do things like advance rigging, but try to keep the legacy stuff working?

Since the free DS is probably taking a nice fat chunk of poser "new user" sales, that leaves poser to only really move in one direction.. higher up.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.