Cage posted at 1:44AM Tue, 24 September 2019 - #4363694

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 6:21PM Mon, 23 September 2019 - #4363685

And this having been done by SM, what is the point to come throwing rocks at Bondware/Renderosity?

At what point does 'Rosity own the decision to retain the licensing feature that everyone is complaining about? Smith Micro started it, but it is being continued. At some point shifting credit or blame back to the former owner is silly and a sort of evasive, if not wholly disingenuous. Unless Smith Micro had the programming team weave the licensing feature into the code so it can't be removed without breaking various unrelated features, making the removal cost-prohibitive, presumably the phone-home licensing is still in there because the new owners want it there. In 2015 or 2016, there was concern that Smith Micro might dump Poser and no one would pick it up. Assurances were made that, should that happen, plans were in place to permanently activate Poser licenses, so users could keep using the orphaned software. Bad code can be fixed or removed, undesirable features deactivated.

Well the Pone Home feature is obviously kept and could of been removed without further issues as Rendo had to change the whole code for there own new activation host. so either keep it or remove it is the same thing for a Programmer . I believe that it was to be able to have all costumers and the Programm. Reading the letters from Rendo " If you do not update then it will not work any longer " this tells it all " a Fear Tactic " and the goodies to feed the cheeps that runn into the stable LOL

this whole thing could also be explained with a statistical plan " How many still use Poser " still there could of been a way more comfortable solution like mentioned. Poser users are very loyal they are artists, artists are very sensitive and most just hate control so we have conflict between Artists and Industrial this always results into a disaster