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Dude? Welcome to Microsoft. Welcome to Poser. Welcome to DS. Welcome to Maya. Welcome to 3DS Max. Welcome to Modo. Welcome to Lightwave. Welcome to, well, every non-GPL'd proprietary program on the face of the planet. You either agree to a EULA, or it aborts installation. 

And that makes it better .... how?

 

It has no moral designation - it simply is. DAZ is no different than pretty much everyone else in the CG biz. 

Tell you what - buy a custom figure sometime from a professional. You will usually end up seeing a contract that you must sign, and one that spells out in excruciating detail what you can and cannot do with that custom item.

Rendo/RDNA are aberrations in this, not norms. 

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Quote - Just like all the Flash dev people who have to go back and learn  HTML5
or all the Game dev people who seem to have  to learn a new game programming engine seemingly every year or two. .

I'd toss in all the .NET programmers who are now faced with the whole new set of paradigms that Windows 8 will throw in their faces. 

'tis progress, and just the way it is. 

Poserdom has lucked out by using base formats and underlying paradigms that haven't changed too awful much since Poser 4 came out, in 1999. Well, apparently things are about to change.

As a merchant you can adapt and overcome, or you can go out of business. Just the way it is, and judging by the stuff cropping up on ShareCG, it looks like others are beginning to step up. Whether or not they'll take over or not depends on time and skill...

 

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Quote - actually the problem is that SM has small profit motivation to do that, while DAZ has immense profit motivation since it's their sold/brokered content at issue

I wouldn't be so quick to agree. The vast bulk of Poser's content revolves around Ye Old Victoria, and has done so for well over a decade. I mean, c'mon... without looking it up, do you remember "Winter Queen"? How much of a market in Rendo revolves around "Jessica"? 

I think Smith Micro has a lot more at stake than even they are willing to recognize, and unless someone steps up to the plate and coughs up a figure that is even partially as recognized, accepted, and supported? Well, it's easy to figure out from there. Like I've said often before; until Smith Micro comes up with a figure that can rival Victoria, they're going to be hostages to content.

( Will Antonia be that figure? IMHO, not until the face and body shape become a lot more flexible. Having kick-ass joints alone just isn't going to cut it - don't believe me? Ask Anton how Apollo turned out for him. )