Quote - wolf359, that isn't even an accurate paraphrasing of SM's reasons to not directly support 3rd Party Systems.

The relevant quote is (bold emphasis mine)

Many ideas, even some of the interesting ones, come with a consequence, and sometimes those consequences are too dear to accept. This is the case with fully adopting the new Genesis system from Daz. There are some good features in their new system, and those that make sense to us, are supported in a way that would benefit not just Daz, but the whole ecosystem of content developers. Those that do not fit within our strategy of an open system, free from dependencies on technologies that are beyond our control, aren’t in synch with our long term goals for growing Poser. Directly supporting the Genesis system does not meet those needs. However, doing our best to support the features that Genesis can provide to all Poser users is clearly beneficial.

Blog entry is here: http://blog.smithmicro.com/2011/08/11/poser-3d/support-for-3rd-party-character-systems-in-poser/

That, to me, seems to say that SM recognizes and agrees with some of the Genesis features, in those features are positive for users and content developers, but they would be more inclined to produce similar features without adopting the DSON/Genesis specifications, directly.  Neither SM's development cycle (or sales approach) is the same as DAZ' and that in itself would cause lots of problems.  DAZ can run a constant public beta version of DS indefinately and change features or specifications every other week if they wanted to.  This would cause pressure to constantly keep up with those changes.  Or if some code gets depreciated or altered in how it is used, then previous systems have to be scrapped or changed.

I think you missed the point of the wolf's point. He's not saying "SM implement Genesis", he's saying "Why hasn't anyone taken SM to task for not supplying better figures so there's no reliance on 3rd parties?" He brings up the point of customers lining up behind 3rd party figures that ended up failing in the marketplace, but no one wants to speak of how SM should be leading the way so there aren't the endless threads of bashing and app wars. It seems no one wants to speak of that obvious point, the discussion always steers toward an outside company and away from SM leading the charge.