"Is Poser suffering from big corporate take over?"

I'd better get my opinion in before this thread goes South. :-)

It's a Catch-22 situation, really. You may think that a large corporation is unsuited (pun definitely not intended) to handling an application intended for creative minds to use; but we need the large corporation because they have money and resources. Assuming you want Poser to continue developing, and to have cool features added to it as time goes on, then money and resources are the key to that. Like it or not, Poser has advanced far beyond the point where one man in his shed can maintain it.

I'd quite like things like gamma correction and other rendering improvements, but not enough to actually shell out for an upgrade. Poser 6 has hit a sweet spot for me, as Poser 4 did before it.