I just can't keep my big keyboard shut :) It is our business. We are the customers. We pay their salary. We buy their products. And we would like to be able to use their products..that's why we buy them. Simple enough....and I tend to think of it as we do own stock in both of them...if CL goes under, my use of Poser ends. If DAZ goes under, my future pleasure of using their product ends as well. And I want to be able to use the dAZ products, and future P5 DAZ products in Poser 5. So, it is our business to bitch and moan. If everyone had their heads up their butts and walked around in tunnel vision like most do nowadays, nothing would change....if you don't care, stay out of it...just don't come whining later when the whole deal falls apart. And I'm not just talking about Poser here either. There is just too much apathy for anyones good nowadays. I bitch and moan, and add some whine because I care. I don't want Curious and DAZ to be going in different directions...as a customer of both of them...I use their products because they are meant for each other. I love Poser and I don't want to see it fail. I love the DAZ products, and I also think they do business with their customers in mind...they have excellent customer service...and products. There are many instances of customer concern and feedback changing the direction of a company. If DAZ is off developing a product to compete with Poser, guess there may not be a lot that we can do about this. I respect DAZ for trying to come up with an alternative to Poser, if that is what it is....although it does not seem to be a full replacement to Poser, unless I'm misunderstanding what I've read, but even then, if the new product warrants my use, I'll give it a try. And who knows, I may use it and Poser 5. Competition is good, most often :) If DAZ is trying to move away from Poser, or at least just produce products up to Poser 4, then all my rhetoric is in vain...but if it is all a matter of that EULA, I think the Poser community can help nudge CL and DAZ to work it out.

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Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
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