"Steve Cooper has stated that SM is not going to integrate code they have no control over into Poser."

Which is a wise.wise decision By SM IMHO

"So no sense you harping on anything being illegal here...it simply is not so. SM can write code that can get it working if they wanted to...with DAZ's blessing and even with their help."

Here is the problem I see with SM doing this:
 
My opinion is based on my many frustrating years trying to get native poser content,  (not exported .meshes.obj files etc),
But functional poser figures into Maxon Cinema4D for rendering animations.

First Came the poser4 "propack" "hosting " for plugins
for Newtek Lightwave ,Autodesk Max &
my app, Maxon Cinema4D

I was ecstatic!

I could import poser scenes with textures and animation intact..... for all of about 3 months.

The erstwhile owners of poser ,Curious labs,
who did NOT own any Maxon C4D code base , and were not invited to the product development meetings of Maxon inc® in Germany, had NO SAY in what changes were upcoming to the Maxon Code in the next point release.

so as soon as I blithely updated my copy of Copy of Cinema4D from 7.2.34 to 7.3.001

Poof!! ...My poser content hosting plugin was broken!!.
 
Add to that Apple was trans-migrating from OS 9 to the Linux based OSX Forcing yet another update of Cinema4D  et al to take advantage of true  preemptive multitasking, more RAM and all the other features of a Modern OS.

Now Curious labs in its death throws sells the poser hosting C4D,Lightwave etc,plugin tech to some company (who's name escapes me)
but they are windows only and even then still NEVER KEEPS UP with the Little updates by Maxon ,to Cinema4D, that kept breaking the poser content hosting plugin.

Finally a dedicated independent Code writer named Robert Templeton
writes a true poser content Support plugin Called "Interposer Pro"

Although he made a valiant Effort to keep his plugin updated from the days of Maxon C4D R8 all the way to R13 even he has stopped
development as Maxon Zoomed forward at lightning speed to its latest version R15.x

I am still on C4D R11.5 for a variety of reasons beyond Interposer support.

My point, in this little tale ,is that once Smith Micro commits to natively supporting an OUTLYING FIGURE they dont own ,they and YOU poser users will be forever at the mercy of the whims of the counter party programmers and marketers over at some other company who are paid to implement new ideas in their product dev cycle.

new Ideas that May require frequent updates to the "genesis for poser plugin" that SM will not have the $$$resources$$$ to constantly make.

 

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