I’m noticing in my referrer logs that many people are still visiting an old post on my beta-test blog by following the trackback I left on Mena’s Corner. The post in question deals with my decision to move to WordPress after the choices Six Apart had made regarding the licensing of Movable Type 3.0. In the interest of fairness, I want to give those people an update on both the status of Movable Type’s licensing and on my own use of the product.
To their tremendous credit, Six Apart (the company behind MT) has listened to community feedback and dramatically revised their licensing scheme to reflect the needs and financial capability of their various customers. The new licensing system is a common sense, easily understood approach that breaks things down into four categories of users: personal, commercial, educational, and not-for-profit.
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