ProtocolZero posted at 6:11PM Thu, 18 July 2019 - #4357293

Based on what?... Neither does the commercial approach, and we know that that's been tried, many times and for many years. Poser's running out of chances. So did Fractal Designs, and Metacreations, and Curious Labs, and e-Frontier, and Smith Micro, and they all ended up bailing on it eventually. I agree, but "invest" can mean many things to many people. Can you honestly say that the Blender crew aren't "invested" in their product? Or the Linux guys?

You seem to be missing the fact that Bondware bought Poser, that is only part of the investment as well. Simply handing it over to opensource is an instant loss.

And to say that the previous companies that owned Poser bailed is an assumption. Sure, they eventually decided to sell, but assuming you know why isn't the true picture. Selling a software is a business decision, and nothing more. Smith Micro could have chosen to keep Poser, hire a huge graphics division and pushed the product like they do with the communication software, but they apparently chose to sell it instead of putting any further investment in it.

Constantly comparing Poser to successful opensource projects is a bit odd as well. If you compare Poser to FreeBSD, ReactOS, etc, then you will see that opensource projects with moderate backing, never really take off.

Comparing Poser to Linux is just ludicrous, I'm sorry, it is. Linux is the number one server operating system in the world. There is no comparison to the success of Linux.

IBM invested a billion dollars into the development of Linux, on the first check.... Then the Department of Defense wrote Linux a check with even more zeros in it.... Do you know what "Automotive Grade Linux" is? Add billions more.....

What you assume would happen to Poser if it went opensource, is missing billions of dollars for development compared to Linux.

Your arguments for why Poser should be opensource lacks the understanding of what makes the most successful opensource projects succeed. And that is the money, lots of it....

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