May 13, 2004

The hubbub over MT 3.0

OK, so Six Apart releases Movable Type 3.0. They remove the restriction preventing people from charging money to support it, and they still provide a free version. So what's the complaining about? Apparently people are ticked that the free version only allows 1 author and 3 weblogs. The "Personal" version allows 3 authors and 5 blogs, and costs (right now) $70.

OK, folks, a "personal" blog is, well, YOU. It's not you hosting things for your friends. It's YOU. If you want twenty seven different blogs, then fine, create them as categories and do different templates. If you want to use the free version to enable your friends to host their blogs on your server, fine, just install multiple copies of the free version. Its not that big of a deal. These people have put a lot of work into their product, they deserve compensation.

Get over it.

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Read the license. You can have one installation, and one for backups, only.

Posted by: Shelley at May 13, 2004 09:08 PM

Yes, YOU can. According to the license:

Making Copies
You may install the Software on only one (1) computer or server having a single CPU. You may make one (1) copy of the Software in any machine readable form solely for back-up purposes, provided you reproduce the Software in its original form and with all proprietary notices on the back-up copy.

It doesn't say anything about your friends installing their own copies.

I'm not trying to be difficult here, but a personal site is a personal site. They've got to draw the line somewhere. Maybe they didn't draw it in the appropriate place, but it's gotta be drawn.

You have adorable cats, by the way. And I very much like your Survival Guide to LAMP series.

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