Poser has been acquired by Bondware (owners of Renderosity) from Smith Micro Systems. Poser has had a difficult time in the past few years after most of the development teams had been laid off.
According to CEO Tim Choate of Bondware the next update of Poser will have an update to the licensing system to make it compatible with Bondwares own. Future updates and version will be driven by users requests.
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