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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. MT Free License by cirby · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Movable Type Free
    (Unsupported License)
    Not willing to pay for Movable Type yet? This fully-functional version of the application is available free of charge. Important limitations of this license include:
    No support from Six Apart
    No access to paid installation service
    No access to fee-based services
    No promotion of your weblogs through the Recently Updated list
    No commercial usage
    No more than one author and three weblogs

    In other words, pretty much the same "free" usage as before. If you need MT for multiple authors, it's not expensive.

    If you need MT for commercial use, it's only a couple of hundred bucks.

  2. GMPP will see its time by cryptor3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm in the process of writing weblog software (that I call GMPP). Who knows; maybe with enough unhappy movabletype users, I might actually get somewhere! muahahaha.