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Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme
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."
"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.
The depth of stupiditiy of the oss/gnu crowd never ceases to amaze me.
Cry when somebody charges for THEIR hard work.
Cry when you nobody will pay for YOURS.
You can't have it both ways. Either software is free and we all push lawnmowers or sofware is not free and we can work writing code. Your actions will decide.
Ask yourself why VC's are funding so few companies. Is it because they can no longer get their money back from software sales?
Ask yourself why so few companies are hiring. Is it because they can get your "donations" for free?
Companies are not as stupid as this community. Companies commoditized the support services we are supposed to "sell" with the free software. We eliminated the coding jobs and companies shipped the crappy support jobs to Rangoon.
Now we're left with no crappy support jobs and no good programming jobs either. Thanks Richard!
Free as in freedom really means freedom from getting paid for your skills.
Fuck em. Thats a little too underhanded for my tastes, let alone my dollar.
Why nigger?
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.
Hate me!
Besides, there is still a free version anyway. The whole MT and blog community has made a mountain out of a mole hill.