Six Apart shoots themselves in the foot
Looking at the news this morning, I moved away from MovableType just in time.
Six Apart has switched to a for-pay business model, crippling features in the freely-downloadable version. The cheapest license (for up to 5 weblogs with 3 authors) is $69.95 – even after the $50 of donations I made, that would still cost me an additional $20. To use MT for my “Help” sites would cost me an additional $150.
Ben and Mena seem to think that the Underpants Gnomes business model works:
1. Take forever to release a new version, and when you do, not have any major new features
2. Charge your users for software that used to be free
3. . . . .
4. Profit!
Matt has no plans to charge for WordPress, which is licensed under the GPL.
May 13th, 2004 at 8:58 am
Rebuilding the farmhouse
By now, Movable Type users may have heard about this. Let me say this at the start: I am not against paying for software. I donated for a license key on my other site. What’s got me pissed is the…
May 13th, 2004 at 12:22 pm
MovableMoney 3.0
There is a huge uproar in every MovableType users blog today, I tell ya’, based on this. MT has released a pricing scheme for their version 3.0. Fine…
May 13th, 2004 at 2:07 pm
MT 3.0
Movable Type 3 is out, and in order to maintain what most of us have built with it, we have to pay. There’s really very little to say that others haven’t already said better; already there are 91 annoyed Trackbacks…
May 13th, 2004 at 2:40 pm
Bill, can I take back that article I posted about sticking with Movable Type? In fact I’ve already tried to …
May 13th, 2004 at 2:45 pm
MT 3.0
Movable Type 3 is out, and in order to maintain what most of us have built with it, we have to pay. There’s really very little to say that others haven’t already said better; already there are 91 annoyed Trackbacks…
May 13th, 2004 at 10:19 pm
Movable suicide /2 – Il suicidio ufficiale di Movable Type
You broke three of most common and well known Internet rules: you can’t sell a product and value it ten times yesterday’s price. You can’t sell a product while yesterday you gave it away for free. You cannot sell less…
May 15th, 2004 at 4:58 am
While I am a casual user of MT and still qualify for the free version 3.0, I perfectly understand the rage about the new licensing structure. Be informed, that 6A addressed the complaints, clarified things and changed the pricing!!
May 15th, 2004 at 10:13 am
CasualUser – I’ve noted this, and given my opinion in another entry.
May 16th, 2004 at 2:21 pm
WikiWiki
The recent Movable Type version 3.0 brouhaha has been interesting. I’m not going to go into the rights and wrongs of it, because everybody: else with a blog has already done that. My first reaction was that I might have…
May 16th, 2004 at 6:37 pm
Blog Roundup
Here we are back with a new Blog Roundup and for the first time in memory, we actually have a single theme for the week. Every single blog that was randomly selected has been posting about the same thing this…
May 16th, 2004 at 6:46 pm
Blog Roundup
Here we are back with a new Blog Roundup and for the first time in memory, we actually have a single theme for the week. Every single blog that was randomly selected has been posting about the same thing this…