Daz and PP should not be suprised that there was bitching. 1) Chad Smith had done an awful job of relaying to the public his company's stance on derivitive works. It was poorly written, over written, and talked around the customer, not to the customer. People, including me, got really pissed. 2) Rumours flew that CL was going to claim copyright to all items created within Poser that used the proprietary Poser fiel extensions. (cr2, pp2, hr2...) People, including DAZ, got really pissed. 3) Mehndi, love her or hate her, has a reputation of being, well, less-than-nice, from time to time. We seem to be on a nuetral ground. (for now anyway A lot of people also remembered Mehndis dream to build the "elite" poser store and figured that the Poser Pros/Daz merger was going to be that dream. It was also coupled with paranoia that Daz derivitive merchandise could only be sold at DAz or PP. Everybody got pissed. It's over now. Something is bound to come along and take it's place. ((Please note that this is not a dig at DAZ, their front line customer service has always been first rate.))