I have only one thing to say about this "opensource like Linux!!!!!!" debacle, which is what runs down to most computer users who might be knowledgeable enough to use Linux but won't:

Most people wouldn't want to buy car parts and assemble their own car either. We want that car ready to be used, thanks.

Really, I really can't imagine that people vouching for an open source Poser have ever seen an older auntie trying to understand technology. Most of our user base, as far as I know, is people who want to make pretty images on the go to post online or whatever. And that's perfectly fine. But every single thing ever created that hasn't adapted to the customer base they actually HAVE (instead of trying to force the thing to be for their intended target audience) has failed. You cater to the people who ARE HERE - even if it wasn't your initial intention or what you had predicted, for some reason you got the attention of those people, and they're the ones paying your bills.

So I highly doubt that letting Poser go open-source - and thus create a whole bunch of versions of Poser, each for a different purpose - wouldn't just end up killing Poser for good.

Instead, what COULD be done is a better support for addon creation.

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Feel free to call me Ohki!

Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

Persephone (the computer): AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, RTX 3070 GPU, 96gb ram.