Quote - 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.

too soon to tell with most of 'em - combing through a codebase and (basically) re-writing it for speed and stability on modern operating systems is a mother, to be kind about it.

Quote - 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.

Probably because they don't have enough programmers, and are still working on what to do with 'em, long-term.

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

Poser's legacy dev team have more interest in Poser's continued survival than SM's management does, when viewed overall. This isn't a knock, but simply the nature of business.

/P