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Weblog System Features Compared

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the immovable-weblog-object dept.

prostoalex writes "The question of the best weblogging system out there arises quite often, especially after the new licensing scheme introduced by MovableType. Here's a rather detailed breakdown of currently popular blogging and content management systems. Out of 11 software packages, 10 run on any server with variations of Perl/PHP and MySQL/PostgresSQL, and one requires Windows and .NET Framework. 4 are licensed under GPL, 3 are under BSD. Mark Pilgrim explains why licensing is suddenly important."

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  1. Wordpress by antarctican · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They're missing the one I use and love (and have no stake in, so this isn't astroturfing....), Wordpress.

    http://wordpress.org/

    Alas the website seems to be down right now.... but it's good, really! I've even been able to hack it a bit to use it as an entire website content management system. Example here.

    1. Re:Wordpress by antarctican · · Score: 1, Redundant

      My bad... ignore that... my window was too small, forgot to scroll right. ;)

  2. upgrading GPL programs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    from the Mark Pilgrim article:

    "Regardless, GPL software has the restrictions that it has, but it can never become more restrictive. An upgrade can't take away freedoms that I enjoyed with an older version."

    I'm a big fan of the GPL, but that statement is false. An author of a GPL'd program is free to release subsequent versions of the software under any license that he/she pleases (assuming the author owns all of the underlying code).

    Peter