dlfurman opened this issue on Aug 19, 2011 · 124 posts
wolf359 posted Mon, 22 August 2011 at 5:00 AM
"As for which is better? Allow me to quote Coldrake:
There is no war. Just a lot of outspoken people and a few annoyingly juvenile "my toy is better than your toy" people, (both Poser and DAZ Studio users)."
And yeah, I agree to this, big-time."
Although I am not personally affected by any of this , for clarity this is slightly different from the usual Poser/DS loyalist app war in one respect.
Many Vendors of poser products are concerned that they wont be able to create& sell clothing products for the latest super hyped figure "Genesis" 
Since it is not "officially" supported by SM poser 9/2012.
Apparently Many people here, for various reasons, will not or cannot run/learn/use Daz studio.
That is their personal issue to address.
This entire recent micro Drama is the culmination of the business decision DAZ made many years ago when decided to create their own Free "Figure Posing and Rendering" application to ensure that their content business had a platform other than poser whose future appeared uncertain back at that time.
They spent Dev time on newer figure tech they now have a $$Commercial$$ version of their Figure/content program and they are moving in a direction they feel is best for them for the future.
it is that simple IMHO .
No big evil plan to "takeover" anything or harm the poser community .
Just another small commercial entity conducting business in America.
Cheers