Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 12 Internet Access

Retrowave opened this issue on Dec 23, 2019 ยท 268 posts


Retrowave posted Sat, 28 December 2019 at 6:51 AM

Thankfully, Azath, that can never happen due to Blender being Open Source (technically everyone owns it already).

Can't happen to ArmorPaint, GIMP, or InkScape either, for exactly the same reason 😁

That's the power of the Open Source: It cannot be beaten as a business model because at the end of the day, the "Free and Open" business model is always going to win over the "Expensive and Closed" alternative. A perfect example of how dramatically things have shifted over the years would be to compare Lightwave to Blender. There was a time when Lightwave was the be all and end all in 3D graphics, it was even used to churn-out Star-Trek back in the day.

Forward to today and who would have thought that more people would know about and be using Blender, than Lightwave. I love Lightwave, Cinema 4D, and ZBrush. Fact is though, I cashed-in my licences for all of those programs due to Blender allowing me to do all of that in one program, and that was a long time ago now, I simply did not need them any more.

So yeah, don't worry about Adobe or Autodesk sucking-up Blender, it can never happen (thankfully).