MT3 hits the streets

I’ve been waiting for the latest version of Moveable Type for a while, partly because I keep hearing stories about how wonderful the new features are going to me (and given that I’m banging my head against MT-XMLRPC and mt.setPostCategories at the moment, a slightly less crunchy way of setting categories would have been nice) The other
reason being that I’m an inveterate hair-trigger ‘upgrade at the first opportunity’ geek of the highest order)

But then I read the new licensing regime for MT3, and now I’m not too sure. I suppose they’re about to make the transition from a gang of hackers with a neat package, to a commercial enterprise with a full-blown product - but I can’t help but feel they’re risking their core market here. There’s not a lot of detail on what the freebie license will cover, and the commercial pricing seems pretty expensive given the competition that they’re up against. 6A are in a difficult position - they’ve got to pay the bills after all - but I can’t help but think that this is going to cause the user base to haemorrage.

Which is all the more annoying because I was all set to start plugging MT as the answer to a couple of the projects that I’ve got on the go at the moment - as a non-scary CMS platform it’s got a lot going for it, but $700 is a lot of money for the sixth user. Especially as Wordpress is a free-as-in-beer alternative, and it’s written in PHP.

And it doesn’t look like I’m the only one having doubts - checkout the linkage from here…

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