My darkest fear was that people would follow DAZ like rats followed Hamelin piper and this has not happenend; for once, human beings pleasantly suprised me. B.t.w., if you follow mainlystanly odissey with Carrara 8.5 on DAZ forums you cannot but concord that CMS is being forced on users with such a relentless determination that only the future DRM server can warrant.

As far as I am concerned, the story is over. DAZ bid for monopolizing the market completely failed. Poser sold like peanuts (and most of the stars I see are gold ones, Pro, the most expensive version), it is solid, fast, full of features and completely beats DAZ offer (the day it will be really available and not in the shape of an incomplete and buggy prerelease).

As far as I am concerned, Pro 2012 is solid and fast, Vue 10 is coming, Blender is marching on implacably (BMesh probably merged in 2.62, work restarted on Nurbana), GIMP 2.8 is being worked and beta 2.7 is pretty decent, FilterForge/Genetica work, probably Arbaro (a compatible plugin is avalable for Blender) and ngPlant will be enough not to need to buy XFrogs... all summed up all the pieces are there or available soon (soon according to english language, not DAZ speak).

The future of DAZ? will they manage to piss off enough client to go bankrupt? could not care less, for me it is sufficient that they are no more in the position of harming me. I just register that no firm follows SnowSultan business pratices... for long.

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2