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"They're not in business to support their competition either."

Simply put, exactly, and that's why I personally feel that supporting Genesis is something Smith Micro absolutely should not do.  Surely the time spent coding the requirements for Genesis into Poser would be better spent creating their own competition to Victoria - their own freely available mesh - their mascot girl.

This situation can be likened to the electronics industry and how a lot of them have helped Apple to put themselves out of business.  Rather than refuse to build iPod compatible docks, they supported them and cut out the need for their own products in the process.  Same with record stores, they sold iPods and now those iPods and the like have put many of them out of business.

Sure, go ahead, support Genesis then :-D

I pointed out earlier that I intend to be a vendor myself, and it goes without saying that I'll be supporting Genesis too.  One thing I won't be doing, though, is creating cross-compatible content.  I'm a strong believer in DAZ products for DAZ, Poser products for Poser - I wouldn't bring Genesis into Poser even if it were officially coded in to the program.

I'd like to point out that I do not shun the DAZ products, in fact nothing could be further from the truth.  I like DAZ the company, I think DAZ Studio is an incredible program, and Genesis is a beautiful piece of work.  That said, I hear the workload put on a vendor is already quite epic, so I have no intention of making mine any larger than necessary, the rewards are not enough, that much is obvious.

I say Poser products for Poser, DAZ products for DAZ Studio, but it sounds like that's just me.

That's ok.