SeanMartin opened this issue on Jun 03, 2008 · 312 posts
renderdog2000 posted Thu, 05 June 2008 at 8:51 PM
Quote - And that's the point where I, too, disagree -- as Tashar does. Half-a-dozen (or even fifty.....an unlikely number) people organizing a boycott does not a mass market movement make. On the other hand -- it might make for some briefly entertaining forum reading.
Everyone has an ideolgically-driven idea about how to "save" the Poserverse from itself -- and it's a frequent topic of hand-wringing discussion in the various forums. So far, the Poserverse has continued to grow & expand on its own regardless, and in spite of the dire predictions to be found in those myriad -- lost -- threads. The Poserverse doesn't seem to need -- or want -- anyone to save it from itself. It seems to be chugging along quite happily without the help.
I was merely pointing out that would be the only way to combat the "problem" as presented, but I don't for a moment thing it would be effective either. You'd never hold such a group together, for one thing, and you'd never be able to get enough people interested to make it work.
As to saving the Poser Universe, again something I have little to no interest in doing. I just don't see Poser's development heading in what I consider ot be the right direction. The areas I really want someone to be working on have more or less stagnated since Version 5, and the areas I have no interest in seem to be the only ones getting any attention in the development cycle.
So while I'll probably own and use a copy of Poser for quite some time to come, it's doubtful I'll be upgrading anytime soon, and in fact I've already started looking at coding an opensource replacement. It will take some time, granted, but in the long run I think it will be well worth it.
-Never fear, RenderDog is near! Oh wait, is that a chew toy? Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...