Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme

Posted by michael on Friday May 14, 2004 @02:38AM 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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Blogging sucks anyway. by i_am_pi · 2004-05-14 02:45 · 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.