If Metacreations are slinging Poser and Bryce etc, somehow someone better get hold of as much as possible of their source forms, so that, if no commercial firm takes them over, they can be carried on by an email group of interested people like is with the Gnu matter (see e.g. http://www.delorie.com/). Else it is disaster, like when Honda stopped making its 600 or 650 cc shaft-drive motorcycle which I like so much.