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I'm wondering about the future of the Poser file format and the rights
to develop for it. Could e-frontier change it at its discretion and
make it effectively exclusive henceforth? Or are new, evolved
commercial file formats more like open source, with anyone allowed to
build software around them, even rival software?
We see a lot of inter-format exchage in graphics. However, anyone
writing an export for animated GIF has pay Compuserve (or whoever now
holds those patent rights) a royalty. Judging from that example, I'm
inclined to think that the relative openess of any given proprietary
format is a business decision made by the company that owns it.
Can anyone set the record straight on this? It has huge implications
for the competitive jockeying between DAZ and e-frontier.
SMcQ
--- In Carrara@(protected), "daveso" <davidso1@(protected)> wrote:
>
> plus with DAZ' stable of figures and content for those artists not
inclined
> to produce their own, there is no need to depend on the Poser family
at all.
> Carrara has all the great rendering capability, and animation.
> The future looks mighty bright to me.
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: "Ringo Monfort" <ringom2001@(protected)>
> To: <Carrara@(protected)>
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 9:58 AM
> Subject: [Carrara] Re: Carrara Family Tree/Flowchart?.... - Question?
>
>
> > Yes,
> >
> > It would have changed the dynamics on everything. Poser had a very
> > long dry spell between Pose4 and Poser5 and when Poser5 was release it
> > was a disaster from very buggie version, EULA issues, no Mac version.
> > Around that time DAZ started DAZStudio cause of lack of any new Poser
> > versions. DAZ also didn't like the EULA and refuse to support Poser5
> > cause of it and only supported Poser4.
> > When e-Frontiers acquired Poser and later release Poser6. But Poser6
> > in my opinion should have been called Poser5.5 there isn't much new
> > stuff in Poser6 from Poser5. While version 6 is selling more than
> > Poser5. DAZ in the other hand as now DAZStudio to a level where it can
> > do better stuff than Poser6 can and it is free. Some commercial
> > plugins are required do some fancy animation and rendering.
> > Now that DAZ owns Carrara I would say it can streamline the Poser/DAZ
> > content loading and character animation plus with Carraras excellent
> > features and rendering quality. They have a killer application in
> > their hands.
> > From my point of view things just got much better for our favorite
> > application. :-)
> >
> > Ringo
> >
> >
> > --- In Carrara@(protected), "markdesmarais" <markdesmarais@>
wrote:
> >>
> >> --- In Carrara@(protected), "antoineclappier" <antoine@> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I can now say that Eovia also made an offer to acquire Curious
Labs at
> >> > the same time (Winter 2003/2004). Sadly (for Eovia!), e frontier
> >> > topped our offer by a small margin and closed the deal.
> >>
> >>
> >> Wow! Sadly for all of us! I can only imagine what Poser would hve
> >> looked like as an Eovia product, with tight Carrara integration.
> >>
> >> Markd
> >>
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