Afrodite-Ohki posted at 9:20AM Fri, 19 July 2019 - #4357457

-Blender has several different executables other than the "official" one, and if we were going to do that with Poser, imagine this scenario: casual user wants to do a thing in Poser. Someone tells them that Poser doesn't do it, but UltraPoser by TechyRando can do it. Casual user downloads UltraPoser by TechyRando, only to discover that UltraPoser can't render in Superfly, and then casual user goes to bug Renderosity because "Poser is not working" because casual user didn't quite understand that they're using a different version of Poser and then it takes them 3 days and 15 back-and-forth tech support messages before Renderosity finally realizes that Casual User wasn't actually using the official Poser executable.

Which is exactly why the first thing Renderosity did with their newly acquired Poser was to eliminate all but ONE version of the software - the Pro version. Tech support is nearly impossible with even 2 versions, much less multiple open source versions.

Which is also why this off topic conversation has more than played itself out in this thread.