It has been my opinion DAZ bought carrara; or part of the reason, to get their hands on the Poser SDK{?} that came with it. That is also why Poser released P7 way early and buggy, because it changed the poser format just enough to be not so compatable.

That is also why DAZ dropped transposer, a once great plugin for getting poser dynamic clothing animations in to carrara.

Seems both DAZ and whom ever owned/s Poser at the time, are more then whilling to sacrafice customers to keep their apps as incompatable as possable. As in DAZ was not at all concerned about genesis's complete incompatability with Poser till they saw just how many customers it was going to cost them.

But then it's not like the Poser devs were any more concerned how the new Poser weightmapped figure worked in Studio.

I tend to think DAZ would rather let carrara die a long, lingering undeveloped death then sell it to what could be yet another competitor.

None the less, this battle between Poser and Studio has no winner and only costs us customers in the end.