ProtocolZero posted at 7:52PM Wed, 17 July 2019 - #4357253

How many of those times the owners of Poser were a marketplace for products for Poser that has been going for years and years? Oh, right.

Tell you what -- let's hop on over to Content Paradise and see how well that's working out. Oh, wait...

How many different versions of Linux are there? Marketplace seems capable of supporting more than one, while maintaining a surprising level of compatibility between them. And really -- how many different versions of Blender are in use at any one time? Really only one, unless for whatever reason someone chooses to use an older version. Still FOSS, and still community-based and -supported, tho', and successfully, too.

And your point is... what??? How is that supposed to rule out a FOSS-based Poser? Poser would still be Poser, and it would still do the same things that everyone expects Poser to do. You're going to have to explain your point here. [EDIT] Keep in mind also that a FOSS-based version of Poser eliminates the price barrier to entry for new users, same as with DAZ Studio. And Poser definitely needs to grow its user base.

You're forgetting that Poser has been around for more than 20 years. In fact, Poser created the marketplace for content that you're talking about. Both Renderosity and DAZ were created in answer to that need. And while Studio might be free, it is not open source.