"Poser has kept Daz alive all these years..."

An interesting take. One could do 'It's a Wonderful Life' and imagine where Poser would be today if Zygote hadn't spun off DAZ to do Poser content.

"There are 3 program that can handle poser-files, Poser, Daz and C4D."

Vue and Carrara?

I'm less concerned about any one company than I am about the market as a whole. I can use something other than DS/Poser IF there is a useable, affordable application and useable affordable content. I want to see the market expand a lot and I really don't see that happening with Poser alone. If DAZ can attract different types of users, that's a good thing overall. If the market grows, then we'll hopefully see a third player as well. If that third party's product suits me better, I'll use it. Loyalty and nostalgia are all well and good but IMO they sometimes blind us to the big picture. I want to see a time when this stuff isn't overly dependent on DAZ' at times less than stellar effort at juggling software and content or Poser's less than reassuring ownership history or internal fugure development yada yada. I don't see that happening without a bigger pie to attract more new companies. Maybe something like iClone or MakeHuman will breakout but meanwhile, I hope that DAZ/Poser will take chances and look beyond the niche. They may fail but as someone said, 'Bankruptcy is to capitalism what hell is to Christianity.' :-)

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