Too Little, Too Late
For me, at least.
So, I’ve been helping a friend with her blog, right? Helping stamp out spam, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, she uses Movable Type for her blog, which I used to use. I mean, it wasn’t like there were a lot of options out there when I first started this blog, what, six years ago? MT was it, so that’s what I used. But, a couple years back they started jacking around with the license agreement and what you could legally run with their blog software before you were in violation of the agreement. When they first released it, before they got big, the promise was that MT would always be free, at least for the personal, home user. Then, things changed due to pressure from investors and the market. So I changed systems to WordPress, which I love for a lot of reasons. For one thing, I find it easier to write additonal components for WP. It’s also easier to use, in my opinion.
But, all that aside, when I was in her blog, clearing out the massive comment spam, I saw an announcement from Six Apart regarding the MT license. It’s free. Again. I laughed out loud when I read that. Sort of closing the barn door after the customer has escaped, don’t you think?
