Quote - Cage, the fact that they gave away Poser 5 when they were still selling Poser 5 (aka: Poser Artist) was miraculous enough!  I don't think  we'd ever come up with enough cash to buy it ourselves--then again who would further develop it if it were open ended?

If it were truly open-source, it'd be worth a shot to port the thing to Linux (and clean a few things up internally). Next up you could build render farm modules from it. Then build a Blender -> Poser bridge, and a Poser->POV-Ray internal bridge (PoseRay does exist, but this would simplify things),  and perhaps a Renderer plug-in system...

Oh, and here's one: How about ripping out the joint controllers (or making them just a module), and putting in a skeletal rig system if you wanted? Do that, and the Blender community would likely get awfully interested....

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