AmbientShade posted at 12:19AM Thu, 18 July 2019 - #4357295

Iirc portions of posers code such as the face and cloth rooms - are licensed tech. In order to go open source those portions would have to be pulled from the software, in order to prevent licensing violations. And in some cases pulling that tech out of poser may be a violation in itself. Either way it would create issues all around. Any content that relies an that tech would no longer be usable. What good would it serve to break half the content in the software and upset the folks that rely on it.

That's a valid point, but it's not an insurmountable obstacle. Licenses can be renegotiated or allowed to expire -- I don't know the particulars in this case, and it reads like you don't, either. Remember that the dynamic cloth plug-in for DAZ Studio from OptiTex was licensed, and in a way that prevented DAZ from being able to offer their own version of dynamic cloth until the original license expired. It's only once that occurred that they're now able to offer their dForce items. Why not take a closer look at the situation before we start dismissing our options out of hand, tho?