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Movable Type Goes Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the blog-this dept.

jamie forwarded a link to the announcement that Movable Type has been released as open source under the GPLv2. Here's the FAQ. Given that Wordpress, textpattern, and many others have been open source for years, how big a splash will Six Apart's announcement make?

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  1. did everyone entirely forget three years ago? by Natomui · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They pulled out of the free-n'-easy market three years ago with MT 3.0 - and caused pandemic dissent across the blogosphere. A lot of the more vocal dissenters moved to (at the time) B2, or the very basic incarnations of Word Press. I remember talking to Anil Dash (one of 6A's first developers) at the time and he said that it was a small number of very vocal people who were upset - but now, if you look at 80-90% of the blogs out there - most of them say "Powered by Word Press" It is no coincidence that pricing structures for blog software JUST DON'T WORK. You're dealing with a different kind of community than hard copy software buyers - these are developers, nerds, et al - and we like it easy to modify and easy to get and with a large community since this IS our community base. All they're doing now is back tracking. Like hell I'm moving back to Movable Type. MT can rot in hell.