Actually, a lot of quotes in there make perfect sense:

"Poser's limited animation tools simply aren't up to the task of any kind of animation that has any degree of complexity or duration. As far as I know, it has no distributed rendering, which would make it nearly impossible to make a two hour movie.
Commercials, shorts, why not, but not much else."

100% true.

*" know someone who does use Poser in their pipeline. I wont say who, but I will say they are very much a respected person in the LW community.

Just because it has limited tools, doesn't mean that it can't be used in a real production pipeline. If it suits the your current needs, is cheaper, and faster. Then why not? (I don't animate much, so no, I don't use it personally)"*

Again, 100% true, and I've also seen it in use personally and professionally. You want something quick and dirty? Poser will get it done. You want Final Fantasy or Beowulf (the new one coming out)? You get solutions with a lot more 'oomph to them.

The rest? Mostly pompous assbaggery (on both sides, come to think of it) to which I reply... so?

I have no opinion of fanboys for any particular CG suite.

I mean, I could just as easily start taking trash about LW in comparison to 3DS Max. What're they gonna do, mention Babylon 5 a lot? Maybe start a really cool flamewar about how Modo rocks, and LW is just a crusty, dying suite whice stands to face the same tepid fate as Bryce. Again, nothing (really) they can reply with - LW has been ignored a lot, after all.

Point is not to knock on LW, but to point out that every suite has strengths and weaknesses. Poser is a quickie little program you can make stuff with. Big deal. LW can do a bit more, and has the pricetag to prove it. Big Deal.

I work with enough real gfx professionals to know that they honestly couldn't give two shits about any particular suite outside of its technical merits. If it fits in the pipeline, it goes in the pipeline. If it doesn't, it sits on the HDD until the need arises. In Poser's case, it's cheaper than a rigged humanoid on Turbosquid (sometimes by orders of mangitude), so it fits a need and fills it. 

Sorry, but I just can't get up enough "ZOMG they called us bad namez0rs!" to bother; esp. not when compared with the CG world I see in real life.

/P