So the commodity of knowledge there is much more valuable.

I believe that this is one of the main reasons that there is no longer (at least to me) any real sense of community in the Poserverse or Dazville.  When it was new there was a feeling of camaraderie as we where all in it together figuring stuff out.  Folks like Dr. Geep explored the program and made his knowledge available for free.  This exists only on the fringes now, where like minded folks play with Poser/Daz and freely share our knowledge.  There have been rumblings and hints in dark alleys of Blenderville about a plug-in that will allow Poser and Daz items to be imported directly into Blender and used in a similar manner.  It'll be like working in Poser/Daz but using Blender's rigging and render tools.  One will also be able to fiddle with the mesh directly.  Last I heard they (no idea who 'they' are) where working on the rigging conversion and creating a library for content.  One of the problems is that the CR2 file is quite old and is somewhat undocumented.  Once this goes gold ("Comon guys!") I'm hoping it will bring back that sense of community that I so loved and still miss.  That's one of the strengths of Blender...a massive user base that is gregarious and loves to share knowledge.