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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Re:All idiots by dbzero · 2004-05-14 04:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It might be too late for SUNW. It kind of funny that for all the hate linux users have for Microsoft, Linux will run all the *nix companies out of business well before they'll even touch MSFT.