Ooh, do you smell that? Is that what I think it is? I think it is. It's... COLD, RAW FEAR. Poser doesn't have a direct competitor right now. Under simple economic theory, you can figure out that eventually someone else will notice this market, decide they want a chunk of it, and make one. Now, for the sake of argument, let's say they do something better, faster, or cheaper, or have some nifty new toy or blinky flashy lights -- something that makes it as desireable or more desirable than Poser itself. Now, if this program could then read in and use Poser files, and thus plug into all of the products already available to Poser and allow Poser users to keep on going with everything they've got started, and without having to even pay CL (or whoever has Poser at that point) a license fee, they could cause some SERIOUS pain. So, CL wants to try to protect themselves from that happening. I can understand that. Now, keep in mind that I'm not a lawyer AT ALL, and that law is a tricky thing (I'll save my rant on that) and also that judges are human beings (and some of them are rather stupid human beings, but I'll save my rant on that as well). However, keeping those in mind, I'd say that the "helper aps" like Morph Manager, CR2edit, ect. have been well established as standard operating practice. (That may not be the right term; I haven't been awake very long). While technically CL could try to cause problems for them, they would likely not win, and I imagine the risks of losing, getting the horrible PR, and possibly having that portion of the EULA overturned would far exceed any minor advantage they might get. On the other hand, a direct competitor reading and manipulating Poser files as Poser does and essentially being a Poser substitue is very different from a helper ap, and would not be standard operating practice. CL could go after them without harming the helper aps. That's my guess on the reason for this portion of the EULA, but I don't know CL, so it's just a guess and I may even have completely misunderstood the issue. I apologize if it sounded preachy; actually writing it out helped me sort it out in my own mind, and also, I just woke up.