I speak here as an Exec for a large worldwide corporation. That's how I earn my living. From my experience, I tell you this: IF THERE ARE any companies really interested in buying and developing Bryce & Poser, that's what they are doing right NOW, besides applying all the traditional feasibility tools to MC's database: Comparing the potential and the market share of both products with the competition. Probing deep at the former MC market - all of us - using the most obvious and cheap probe available, the WWW. Surfing all Poser/Bryce related sites, to learn what we think, what we plan to do, and how far we're willing to go. What are we offering now to those hidden observers? Two of the most important related forums engaged in an open war, one of them almost dead, and a increasing trend towards Vue. I would say after reading such a report: risky, to risky...

Imagine this; Martians, anxious to take over the internet and seize all of our porn, set up a graphics website and put subliminal messages in responses to enslave the minds of the members. Word of the site spreads like wildfire, and soon everyone on Earth is enslaved by the evil overlord. These slaves search the web day and night, and email all the porn they find to Mars Porn Central. Your post is wild speculation. Any software company interested in Poser wouldn't care if we dress like Eleanor Roosevelt and shit all over ourselves, as long as we have cash. If by some wild chance they DID come here, they'd find ten thousand people who, despite all of their problems, coughed up 250 bucks for that piece of software. They care about how mony monkeys are in the zoo, not how the monkeys act.

Legume: What are you talking about!!! A software company certainly looks into the behaviors and morals of those who will be using their products. Do you really believe that Microsoft would have released Windows98 if they felt like the users were a bunch of perverts and nitwits? Gates has got to maintain his image, and thats why MS products are only designed for the most upright of moral character. To release a product to a group that didn't meet the necessary standards of morality would be plain Un-American.

My morals are none of Bill Gates' or any other corporation's business. And neither is what I do with the product after I purchase it. For all anyone knows, when I buy bananas at the local grocer, I could bring them home and throw them on the kitchen floor and just roll in them until I'm covered with banana glop. And it's none of the grocer's business if I do just that. It only becomes their business if I do that in public and mention their name as the supplier of the bananas. Do those who make the brushes that artists use to paint have any control over what the artists paint with those brushes? No. They do not. The only control they have is to remove the brushes from the marketplace, and by doing that they would go out of business rather quickly. Kate (who isn't EVEN gonna tell ya what she does with chocolate syrup and strawberry jam and whipped cream evil grin)

That's it!!! I'm enacting the "banana ban" on you immediatedly! Bananas were meant to provide nourishment, and any deviation from that original purpose is an abomination.

Oh yeah? Ban my banana glopping? Well...SO'S YER OLD MAN!! There...I guess I told YOU! giggle, snicker, wink, nudge Kate (who hopes she won't be forced to resort to the "your mother wears army boots" defense)

Kate, if I buy the bananas, can we glop together?

Aaaaw c'mon Kate?? Do tell???? PLEASE??? I am sitting here right now with my supply of chocolate syrup and strawberry jam and whipped cream just waiting, heh, heh eviler grin

Legume - your place or mine? 3DSprite - can you say "fingerpaint?" Kate gigglin' again

Actually...I was refused the privledge of purching Windows 98 due to my moral character. I was informed at the time what this was a Microsoft Policy. So, I went home and had to make due firing up Win31 to visit the porn sites. :( Foxhollow <----- who had to "borrow" a copy of Win31

Excuse me, Foxhollow, but how on earth would Microsoft know ANYTHING about your "moral character" in the first place? I mean, really now, do they have people who follow us around in our daily lives taking notes on where we go and how many PTA meetings we attend or something? What did they use to make this judgement on your "moral character" before deciding to allow you to purchase Win98? You know what? When I bought Win95, I just waltzed on into the store and picked it off the shelf and took it to the counter and the only thing the clerk asked for was my Driver's license so he could verify my signature on the credit card slip. If you can't get it on the internet, try the local software store - they're not nearly as picky about who they sell to. wink Kate