{"id":2107,"date":"2004-05-15T03:06:42","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T03:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2004\/05\/15\/bye-bye-mt\/"},"modified":"2004-05-15T03:06:42","modified_gmt":"2004-05-15T03:06:42","slug":"bye-bye-mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2004\/05\/15\/bye-bye-mt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye MT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world of &#8216;blogs was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/33072\">shaken up<\/a> some today. Mena from Six Apart <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/corner\/archives\/2004\/05\/its_about_time.shtml\">posted a comment<\/a> about Movable Type&#8217;s new licensing scheme. There has been to say the least, a <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/05\/14\/1314256&amp;mode=nested&amp;tid=149&amp;tid=185&amp;tid=99\">huge outcry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I am the last person who would begrudge the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/corner\/archives\/2004\/05\/its_about_time.shtml\">6A<\/a> from making a living <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">on their software<\/a>. Hell, I am a strong supporter of commercial software. However I find their current licensing policy to be a long way from reasonable or well thought out. With any luck they will revise this.<\/p>\n<p>MT is a good tool but far from a perfect one. The primary advantage it had was a strong support community. A lot of people developed add-ons and plug-ins for MT that extended it&#8217;s functionality. This was a real bonus. With the new licensing scheme driving these motivated, technically savvy users away I don&#8217;t think it can maintain it&#8217;s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I will be migrating this site to the codebase for the [[wp:CMS]] I have under development as soon as I can. For clients and other sites I will be using other software, most notably I have been impressed for now by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of &#8216;blogs was shaken up some today. Mena from Six Apart posted a comment about Movable Type&#8217;s new licensing scheme. There has been to say the least, a huge outcry. Now, I am the last person who would begrudge the folks at 6A from making a living on their software. Hell, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}