Pdxjims, yes, for sure keeping together would have been a wiser choice for everyone. But I tell you, I can understand both. CL-Egisys on one side, they want to make the most out of their "baby", whichi is the fruit of their own genius. And Daz, they know they largely contributed to the success of what Poser is today, and probably felt a little "betrayed" when CL asked the huge price. So maybe, there's a little of this letdown in the decision of revealing publicly that detail by DAZ. I believe (I might be wrong of course) that, apart form the financial aspects I described above, there might be this human factor too. Probably DAZ heads were let down in seeing that their contribution to the success of Poser didn't bring concrete gratefulness from CL heads. And also CL heads probably during these three years have suffered in seeing that all their hard work and dedication to Poser did only bring little into their pockets, compared to what it could have been and what they had deserved, and much only into DAZ's pockets. Maybe the thing fell off of everyone's hands at a point, it fell on the floor, and it broke. But I think it was inevitable that the ways of CL and DAZ, either solidly join in a tight partnership, or eventually split. It's just too risky to depend on someone else's program for existence, and too silly to take advantage of maybe (who knows) not more than 10% of an application's market potential. Really the DAZ position was the more at risk. Never forget about Extensis, the plugin producers. SOme years ago, Extensis MaskPro was the leader tool fur cutouts in Photoshop. But it was enough that with version 5 (or 5.5 can't remember) Adobe implemented some "magic" tools for selection, and.... flop. Mask Pro was dead and buried in a day's timespan, and Extensis had to redesign their product line a big deal. Same with Phototools plugin and version 6 of Photoshop. Life of plugin companies is hard. Your life really depend's on the mother application company if you're not wise enough to differentiate your product line significantly. In a way, DAZ currently is for CL what a plugin company is for Adobe Photoshop. Just too risky for them to go on like this, and at the first "symptoms of tempest", they took the plunge for the new app. How can't they be understood?