DCArt posted at 8:08 AM Wed, 12 April 2023 - #4461895

>>>> But a commenter on my vid made the observation that the underlying technology has been stagnant for a decade, and by and large, I don't much disagree with that notwithstand superfly in 2015. Innovations rather than streamlines have been awfully thin on the ground wouldn't you say?

This does not mention the fact that Smith Micro laid off the entire original Poser team in 2016, and replaced them with a team that was almost entirely unfamiliar with the application. This was a "cost cutting" move, not a performance move. In the three years between the layoff and the time that Bondware purchased Poser, there were only two very minor updates to Poser 11 (11.1 and 11.2, both released by the replacement team). The only "major" feature released in those two versions was a paths palette, that didn't really work as well as it should.

Bondware purchased Poser in June of 2019 and the first initial release was to fix that the Smith Micro releases "phoned home" to an authorization server that SM has shut down. After that Bondare started working on Poser 12, and included some of the original developers on their team. That was a step in the right direction.

Has Poser lost ground? Yes, it has. But that finger points to the previous owner that nearly ran it to the ground. Not to Bondware, who is at least moving it forward.

Allowing my self to make some corrections on your comment.

SM last update was Poser Pro 11.1  11.2 was the first release of bondware, this release already messed up the Python engine as they literarily changed the version number length causing most scripts not to work any longer. Only fix was a Py that you need to launch with poser from a third party getting these to work correctly.

Concerning the activation of Poser SM had a permanent activation and a permanent offline activation for poser 11 that was removed by bondware the SM offline activation server was still online for almost a half year after the purchase of Poser from bondware, the moment bondware got aware of this still running activation server they forced SM to take it also down.

The next thing came right up by sending out a killer to terminate any Permanent running Poser to obligate the trusted users to use the Latest Poser 11.2 release from bondware. this got send by the  integrated producturlsupport.com periodically to make sure that any legal registered Poser 11.1 license gets killed removing every permanent licence. 

Bondware removed the offline activation and Permanent activation replacing it with there new weekly renew version that throws a new script into your C Drive every week, actually not a Piracy protection as this system only controls the honest clients and only these who have a legal licence can be reached with this system.

meanwhile also the killer producturlsupport.com got taken down removing any trace of the act as there is no more need after 2 years chasing the honest customers killing there permanent poser activations.

So the intention, or lets say excuse, SM made this activation that could not be removed was never true. they made it even worse then it was before by force. Not even intending it to be against piracy as this could not be stopped. It all was intended to catch every client and previous honest Poser buyer by force sending them a little notice " Hey your poser id dead " you need to come to us to get it running again. Right in there face on the Desktop