Quote - As a Poser user, I felt consciously excluded, a kind of "go away, boy, you bother me." I get that DAZ wants everyone to use DS, but to actually try to force people to use it seemed a bit too arrogant and presumptuous. 

I just don't understand this argument, really I don't.

Guess what, you can't play all your old cassette tapes in an ipod, and you can't listen to mp3s on a wind-up gramophone. 

There comes a point where clinging to backward-compatibility makes forward progress impossible. ipods use technology that offers a whole range of advantages over CDs and cassette tapes but it isn't compatible with either of them. That's just the way it is, tough shit.

Does Daz have a duty to slow down the development of their figures and software (or stop it altogether) so that Smith Micro can keep up? Poser has hardly moved at all in a decade, Daz has a duty to their own users to improve their products, both figures and software.

If Poser users feel left out they should be complaining to Smith Micro, not to Daz.