Well, I view this all from a slightly different angle. The only situation I can imagine in which anyone would actually want or need to use the CR2 format, other than for developing utillities that make up for features not found in Poser itself, is one in which a user wants to use Poser content natively in another program. In this case it would be much better to use the native format of that program to gain the size and feature advantages. For example, Victoria saved natively in Lightwave with 5 full body morphs from Poser used as Endomorphs is only 1.6 megs compared to the victoria 2 CR2 which is over 20mb. Add to that the use of skelegons, etc and there is a definite advante to not using the CR2 format. This really just seems more like carefull legal consideration of of CL's assets than a "business strategy" of any kind. Being carefull usually pays off.