Goodbye MT
Dear Movable Type,
No thanks, I’d rather not part with that much scrilla. I would have thrown you a few bucks, but you had to go straight for the jugular.
You may have wanted to consider the fact that your competitors offer pretty much the same features and are still free. At the very least, you should have poked around to see what your current users thought about the new pricing scheme. Too late now, they’ll be jumping ship like rats- not even bothering to notice that we could just keep the current version.
Goodbye MT, hello textpattern, wordpress or drupal.
May 13th, 2004 at 11:34 am
Looks like they will still be offering a fully functional free version of 3, but it won’t have the ’structured support’ that the paid version will. Similar to Linux distributions, huh?
May 13th, 2004 at 11:39 am
Plus the problem of only having one (oh- look they changed it to three) authors. Still, I would just like a 65 buck version with unlimited authors. Group blogs are getting screwed.
May 13th, 2004 at 3:27 pm
MT 3.0’s on the “honor system” it said… So, you can download the full version, and go nuts with it…but it’s wrong. I personally wouldn’t.
If you want a tour of Textpattern, lemme know. I’ll hook you up with a publisher login on my site, and let you run around and play with it. It’s pretty damn cool, if you ask me. I love it.
May 13th, 2004 at 7:35 pm
Considering the new release of Blogger, it shouldn’t automatically be excluded, either. I totally dislike the MT thing as well, so Textpattern is looking more and more like the direction I’ll move. Time to get busy on that one.