Quote - Also, by making Genesis proprietary (it only works in Daz Sudio 4) they found themselves in the position of preaching to a rather small choir.  Even DS3 users who tried and dropped DS4 had to decide between doing without Genesis or using a prog they didn't like. The same choice as faced by many Poser users, actually.

Well DAZ did offer the details to Smith Micro, whatever you may think of their expectations that the offer would be accepted, and appear to be working to get the format supported in other apps. It's not that they want it to be proprietary, just that so far it is (ignoring Carrara 8.5 beta, another DAZ application).