"Regardless of whether you like DS, hate DS, or are neutral on the subject, we can all thank Curious Labs and their draconian attempts at increasing revenue through the very restrictive EULA policies they implemented (or tried to implement) many years ago. The birth of DS was in direct response to the EULA that came out with one of the new releases of Poser (P5???). As I remember (slept since then) the EULA had terms that basically required any 3rd party content providers to acquire licensing from Curious Labs to use the content in the new version of Poser. There was a pretty big public outcry over the EULA, because DAZ figures/content, and other content that people already had, could not be "legally" used in the new Poser until it was licensed through Curious Labs. The EULA was changed within a few months, but Curious Labs clearly showed DAZ how delicate their business model was. Without affordable software to consume their content, they didn't have a business! Within a few months (again, going on a less than clear memory regarding the time span), DAZ announced that they would be creating software that could host and render their content (and Poser content), that would be “free”."

and how the tables have turned.  you also seem to be conveniently forgetting all the EULA BS that Daz has tried to pull over the years.

as for Daz being in the driver's seat, LOL.  what, because of Genesis?  Genesis pales in comparison to the improvements rolled out in Poser 2012.

aside from being able to use Daz's hyped up new figure and another bullet point on the box, please explain how the addition of Sub-D to Poser, right now, would bring any real world benefits to Poser users.  the only place it would have immediate benefit is in the cloth room.

 

and for the record i am not anti-Daz.  i plan on putting an equal amount of work into both the Daz and Poser figures.  i am just sick of this community polarization BS lately.  there is nothing stopping anyone from using whatever figure/software they want, but all this sudden hype over subD is making me gag.