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Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme

Posted by michael on from the slash-still-free dept.

cioxx writes "An immensely popular weblog publishing tool, Movable Type, has announced a new pricing model based on "support level, number of authors permitted, and the number of weblogs permitted per license". MT3D (Developer Edition) for non-commercial users has drifted away from its full-featured, free predecessor and managed to upset many blog authors whose entry summaries can be seen via the trackback feature originating from the initial MT3D announcement. Is this a case of bait-n-switch, or simply a company trying to capitalize on its dominant market share? WordPress (GPL), which is an equally powerful CMS, seems like a perfect candidate for those who are considering a switch to a non-crippled, free alternative."

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  1. Blogging sucks anyway. by i_am_pi · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    "OMG, my free blog software changed, i have to pay for it now"

    "i'm poor and can't afford it, if you read the past entries of my blog, which are all bitching about how i'm poor and can't afford anything"

    "i'm going to bitch about MT changing to a non-free system on my blog."

    Really, who cares? There's some blogs out there that are worth reading (pervscan, MSDN Blogs), but 99% of the users of Movable Type are retards. Charging for MT is keeping the shit off of the web.

  2. With all due respect by 222 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck em. Thats a little too underhanded for my tastes, let alone my dollar.

  3. Re:Please oh please oh please by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The internet is supposed to be many things to many people and one of those is a forum for expression of ideas and thought.

    Exactly! Ideas and thought for everyone, from everyone.

    Note however, this excludes bullshit like what you had for breakfast, how your cat looks today, how your boyfriend dresses, the latest bad punk/goth/emo song and the weather. I'd post a good example of a poor, pathetic journal with nothing but personal bullshit, but chances are the bitch will freak out again. All the personal crap from blogs just contaminates search engines with biased crap no one cares about. Go look for something on google... Anything. Chances are that in the top 10 results there will be at least 3 links to blogs where someone, amids of all their personal issues, will have something irrelevant to say about whatever you were looking for. That's how blogs, journals and the like ruin the internet.

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    Hate me!
  4. Re:Six Apart = Drug Dealers by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    No. What they did was give people a free lunch. It's just that people have become selfish and greedy, and have blasted Six Apart when they decided they couldn't provide a free lunch to everyone anymore. They should be fucken thankfull someone offered a free lunch to them in the first place.

    Besides, there is still a free version anyway. The whole MT and blog community has made a mountain out of a mole hill.