MoveableType 3.0, a disappointment?
May 14th, 2004 • MoveableType
Yesterday, MoveableType 3.0 was released, and along with the updated lines of code, there was a new storm just waiting for MT fans, some call it commitment, some call it profit, others call it a new pricing scheme!
To me, this is sheer disappointment, I liked MT, I’m not a very loyal user, but still I like it, I can recognize good software when I see it. It isn’t just some things that make MT so special, it’s the whole package, it’s well documented, perl modules are structured, it’s extensible enough, it’s almost everything I could need to manage a single blog with a single author.
I’m not disappointed because I’ll have to pay, I mean I still fall into the free category, so the pricing wouldn’t affect me very much, except I hate to see a company I respect destroy it’s reputation like that, they need to understand, the casual bloggers are not where the money is, it’s the corporate ones, it’s the support, it’s everything that’s not a blogger who wants to do a favor for his friends.
SixApart should revise the pricing, this is not how you do business, go learn some marketing, but don’t kick away loyal MoveableTypers, they’re the key to making business, it’s not the money that matters, it’s the reputation.