Quote - DS was, as markht says, developed when Poser's future looked uncertain - and well after DAZ 3D was split off from Zygote as the Poser content production company. DS1 and 2 were free, it was only with DS3 that there was a free base version and a non-free Advanced version 9 and a Pro Bundle that included DS Advanced and the Content Creation Tools).

That is when I started using it, when it became a usfull tool