Freedom 0
Mark Pilgrim,
Dive Into Mark,
May 17, 2004
Movable Type has launched version 3.0 of its blogging software and is getting a bit of a rough ride from the blogging community. Chief among their concerns is its new pricing policy, which as Mark Pilgrim reports in this item, may result in people paying hundreds of dollars to maintain their blogs. Writes Pilgrim, "Movable Type 3.0 changes the rules, and prices me right out of the market. I do not have the freedom to run the program for any purpose; I only have the limited set of freedoms that Six Apart chooses to bestow upon me, and every new version seems to bestow fewer and fewer freedoms." Six Apart, which makes Movable Type, offered this clarification of its licensing, but Pilgrim's point holds. Moreover, it appears that 3.0 isn't the upgrade everyone hoped it would be: Alan Levine writes, "It is not like any of our beautifully running installations of MT 2.6 and earlier will suddenly blink out or self-destruct in 5 minutes, Mr. Phelps." Anyhow, bloggers are abandoning Movable Type and heading to WordPress, a type of open source blogging software that will never change its rules or suddenly cost hundreds of dollars.
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