Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A solution to DAZ/Tailor/M2/V2 situation, app by DAZ atm

depakotez opened this issue on Jul 01, 2002 ยท 146 posts


ookami posted Tue, 02 July 2002 at 10:06 AM

I have been a DAZ advocate for years. I love them, I love their work and I love the quality they produce. However... if they try to claim ownership of morph approximated using tailor... I will not buy anything else from them. The Tailor utility does not create anything that infringes upon their copyrights. The APPEARANCE of Michael 2 is NOT THE SAME AS MICHAEL 2!!! Just as an AMD processor is not an Intel processor, and a Segatte hard drive is not a Maxtor hard drive. Sure... they look alike... they work alike... but they're NOT THE SAME!!! They have NO LEGAL footing to stand on and in fact, they policy reeks of an attempt to MONOPOLIZE. Sorry... I don't like Microsoft for employing these tactics... and I don't appreciate DAZ using them... I'm sure they don't mind loosing a single customer... even one that has spent literally thousands of dollars with them... but I wanted to at least put in my opinion. That said... I understand their concern... they don't want to loose business. But face it, their reasoning is completely off. The people like me who are going to buy the high quality morphs, will keep doing it because we want high quality morphs for commercial renders. The people who don't care about high quality morphs... guess what... they probably weren't going to buy it anything... Screw the projections of lost profits. Besides... now much money are they REALLY loosing? How many people only own V1 and not V2? Or M1 and not M2? They are going to piss off people like me who spend over $1000 a year with them so that they can get an extra $40 from someone who makes a single purchase. Hmmm... makes perfect sense. Ok... I'm done ranting now. I guess RuntimeDNA will become my new favorite PoserPlace... especially since Traveller is over there now. And since I own Tailor, V2, M2, Stephanie and Aiko... I'll just make my own DAMN morphs!