Actually look at what they've done with every program they've bought up.. done a few minor patches, but practically no major foreward developement at all.

And there are two camps.. how to best develop content FOR DS, and how to best develop is FOr poser.. that wouldn't change, but having both major programs own by different players assures us that one or the other will survive.

Hexagon 2 was a remarkable achievement, the the changes and bug fixes by Eovia when they owned it were amazing in a very short period of time. Once daz got it, even major bug fixes like exporting proper point order took almost 2 years to achieve, and that's a HUGE deal breaker for anyone using it.

Daz intended to take over poser's application place, and in 4 years of developement now, still haven't added poser base features like cloth, hair and rigging ability, not to mention even touching close to poser's powerful material room.

I trust SM and poser's legacy developement team FAR more then I trust daz hacking at it for the next few years.

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