M3D: They sold out by giving Poser users the middle finger in exchange for the big industry applications.  Daz has always catered to the hobbyist crowd.  Now they are ditching the hobbyist crowd for the industrial standard/big business crowd, which is also their reason for abandoning Genesis 2 on the second anniversary of its release.

Their not ditching anyone, they have just stopped doing SM's work for them.

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"DAZ troublemakers" hey? why not just trouble makers? Seems slightly loaded way of putting it.

Razor was working overtime with the responses. DAZ has spent the last few years bending over backwards trying to get Poser users the Genesis tech when SM did nothing but open up a plugin api using uncompiled python to handle plugins. To do an importer that did most of genesis functionality was a huge investment of time... ...but they gave SM the middle finger. That statement made absolutely no sense.  Especially when you figure out that SM is trying to crawl in bed with hive wire instead of DAZ after the work they done. Or DAZ can't reach anyone at SM because their contacts no longer work there. Who's trying and who is not? When that work still didn't justify the expense, that's why Poser support was ended. To say that DAZ gave Poser users the middle finger is misinformed at best. If your services are not wanted, what business will still keep providing them? Who would provide services to customers that have been openly hostile to them, and don't buy their products? Middle finger? Wow.