Free MT
I still can’t figure out the anger about MT pricing? Do people not realize you can still get it free for non-commercial use, with mutliple authors and multiple blogs. I guess the price just seems to high for some people. Staying on MT 2.6* doesn’t seem so bad though.
I suppose someone will write another CMS in response. How about GPL this time?
Jennie
on May 16th, 2004
@ 2:13 pm:
You don’t think the pricing for what most consider a very limited personal license (with no real added value to boot, unless you count TypeKey, which I wholeheartedly don’t) is a little, um, ridiculous? I’m willing to give them more of my money for the addition of compelling enough features, though, and I’ll wait it out with 2.6 to see if they do. Especially with yesterday’s attempt, albeit small, to revamp the pricing structure.
Technically I’ve got four blogs, with an embryonic fifth, two inactive and still on Blogger, which I’d planned to revamp and transfer to MT at some point. Not to mention I want to add authors. Can’t do that with the New Free, so at some point it’ll have to be a decision – stagnate with 2.6, pay up, move on to something entirely new, or just go back to Blogger (ugh).
I see your point if you have more than three blogs. I’m not quite sure I see the point of having so many blogs, but that isn’t for me to decide. I suppose you can have one blog, but then bulk up the category templates so it act like three or more blogs. It galls me to pay for software of any kind, so I do sympathize, in a general way. I also think the MT folks are shooting themselves in the foot with web hosting folks. I am sure someone will make a free software blog that does the trick in no time. I guess its the anger and vitriol (not from you so much as other people) I don’t understand. I mean it’s their product, they can price themselves out of the market if they like.timbu
on May 16th, 2004
@ 4:40 pm:
Jennie
on May 16th, 2004
@ 10:06 pm:
All my blogs are distinctly separate entities (well, the photo blog could be integrated with a little work).
It’s not a matter of paying for it; I certainly don’t grudge them a reasonable fee. But the amounts are pretty preposterous for a personal blogging tool.
I sort of “knew” them back in the day, when MT was young, and it’s how I first got my feet wet. So I feel kind of guilty about just saying “Hey, it’s your funeral,” but I do admit to a certain bit of indignance. People felt a distinction between MT and a faceless corporation (ie Microsoft), because they’ve invested their skills developing the plug-ins that made it what it is, their loyalty in recommending it and building a massive user base, and their time beta testing it. The community (at least as it existed last week) felt betrayed by the very unexpected price-out. It was a personal issue, mistake or no.
But I’m sure we’ve all learned our lesson :-/
Groover McTuber
on May 18th, 2004
@ 11:28 pm:
Seen The Poor Man? MT for hilarity. Check out his You Luckie Kiddies post for plenty o’ sytle sheet laughs (I’d use the permalink, but it doesn’t have the funny sideburn picture).
Groover McTuber
on May 18th, 2004
@ 11:33 pm:
spelling!