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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."
Retroactively revoke all of their licenses... and somehow sue Google and get them to shut down Blogger.com... and and... then maybe I'll be able to locate actual information when searching the Internet for stuff.
Come on you ninnies! Software, data, music, movies - THEY SHOULD ALL BE FREE!
How dare this company charge money to recoup what they spent on developing this product. Why, if every company did that, it would be anarchy!
Er, no no... OLIGARCHY!
Um, no wait, PLUTOCRACY!
No, got it... it would be CAPITALISM, savior of the common man and the greatest force for freedom ever known.
Now, let the whining begin!
I bought a Honda Accord in 1994, and when I bought a new one in 2004, they raised the price by almost eight thousand dollars!
It seems like with anything you buy today, you're at the mercy of the people working to make the product and sell it.
mmmmmmm Free beer..... GULP GULP GULP.. mmm MORE free beer GULP GULP GULP... (footstep) (footstep) (footstep) "HEY! stop blocking the bathroom door man, i gotta pee... What do you mean its $25 to use the bathroom!!! This is an OUTRAGE!!!"
You know they're all just as happy as pigs in shit to actually have an opinion to write in their blogs.
It's like when I reboot one of my linux boxes and see Segmentation Fault during init, which is happening more than it should with 2.6.5 but that's another topic, it gives me something to do. Hell, the only reason I even have linux boxes is so I can perpetually fix them.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
...but it should cost .01 cent (or 1/100 Euro) per word entered. If every blogger had to think about what they were writing, blogs might not the emo, angsty, tedious wasteland they are now.
/. is included, so I owe Taco 53 cents. Sigs don't count.
And yes,
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
W h a t ' s - t h a t - y o u - s a y ?
I thought everyone l o v e d super-wide fonts
and double-spaced lines. MovableType lets me
bring a truly r e a d a b l e blog to the
blogosphere.
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I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
I feel very sad for those bloggers. Now they can no longer fill up the Internet full of their mindless self indulgent drivel for free. (AS IN BEER OF COURSE) Now they have to pay to fuck up search engine results.
:( Meh, meh, meh! :( :( :(
That makes me sad like a panda without any bamboo
This is not an open source vs. closed source issue. You get the source whether you pay or whether you download, you just don't get the re-distrubution rights.
MovableType is written in Perl, so you do get all the sources. Ironically, since it's written in Perl, MovableType can be considered a closed-source package, since who the hell wants to parse someone else's Perl code.
Yeah, maybe, but you know that's who they all learned it from...