Quote - *I think what gets most people upset is that the vendors are using a character that is primarily targeted to the DAZ user.

*This is notably wrong!

Here's a little history:

Poser 1.0 was released in 1995
Poser 4.0 was released in 1999
Victoria 1 was released in 1999 - as far as I know she was a derivate of the P4-woman (Posette)
Victoria 2 was released in 2001
Victoria 3 was released in 2002
DAZ  Studio was released in it's version 1.0 in 2005 as far as I remember.
Victoria 4 was released in late 2006

(...and this does just contain the history of the most popular model by DAZ).

I was apparently wrong. Of course I didn't come to 3d until March 2007. As I said in my post I am not an artist. one look at my gallery would prove that.

Quote - And just a word to those that say that the User Interface of DS/Poser is so hard to learn: Yes, definitely, regardless what you try as a new tool I don't like the interface of DS at all and can use Poser with my eyes closed - because I use it more and for a far longer period. And in Bryce I am not even able to find the interface...

I actually find the interface in both relatively easy to use. I won't even go into Bryce.

I'll go away now and leave this discussion to you artists and venders, and crawl back under me rock.