Deecey posted at 3:25PM Thu, 27 June 2019 - #4354977

tonyvilters posted at 9:11AM Thu, 27 June 2019 - #4354970

We can not allow a company to become a slave of another company's technology.

• We don't want Poser/Renderosity/Bondware to depend on DAZ for figure technology.

• We also don't want Poser/Renderosity/Bondware to depend on Blender.org for rendering technology.

This.

They don't. Cycles is open source. Poser or who ever uses it can make whatever improvements they want., when they want. As far as I know, it wouldn't cost Poser a cent. Further, seems Poser is in good company. The following is from the Cycles website.

Cycles is an physically based production renderer developed by the Blender project. _ The source code is available under the Apache License v2, and can be integrated in open source and commercial software. Cycles is natively integrated in Blender, Poser, and Rhino. The Cycles4D plugin for Cinema4D and a plugin for 3ds Max are available as well. _