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72 Comments

markus941, on 12/12/2007, -2/+75I guess they finally realized why Wordpress has been eating them alive.
jcaino, on 12/12/2007, -3/+50Digg for MT. MT is so much kinder to servers than WordPress is - the comparison between I/O and CPU usage is just ridiculous.
TimmyGUNZ, on 12/12/2007, -3/+45Took long enough. Perhaps if they embraced this idea earlier, they could've taken a lot of share away from WordPress.
Skitzzo, on 12/12/2007, -6/+37Too little, too late.
rodrigomuniz, on 12/12/2007, -7/+37No thanks, I'm already with WordPress.
paperfrog, on 12/12/2007, -0/+19MT 4 is really good. Its ability to handle multiple sites rocks, and the Dashboard kicks WordPress to pieces. I wanted to adopt it when we started looking to replace our Joomla sites and standardize on a single platform. But the licensing costs were pretty steep for multi-author sites; only two out of the ten partner developers listed on the MT site returned my emails; and the bolt-on Community features were quoted to us at $15k. So we went with WordPress. Which is kind of a pity, because MT4 is worth a look. Probably too late for us, but free should make Movable Type a lot more attractive to the general community. Got a site to experiment with? Give it a spin. It's slick.
vertice, on 12/12/2007, -4/+22It's still written in perl though.
TyCage, on 12/12/2007, -3/+18MT has always been open source, since the source was right there for you to look at. Now, however, it's going to be GPLed as well.
curtistheory, on 12/12/2007, -1/+15This wasn't a gesture of good will it was a sign of desperation.
idigit, on 12/12/2007, -1/+10It's spelled Perl, and no.
stevesteverson, on 12/12/2007, -1/+8A day late and a dollar short, I agree it's not a great sign. The sad fact is that had it been GPL'd from the beginning they'd probably have a much better market share. At this point I doubt it's going result a big uptake, and I still think it's PERL roots are a hindrance.
Kino500, on 12/12/2007, -3/+9I'm very impressed with Movable Type 4. Good job, guys. Pat yourself on the back for a good 2007!
blizake, on 12/12/2007, -1/+7Thanks to WordPress.
tommasz, on 12/12/2007, -0/+6MT bit me years ago when the Berkeley DB files got corrupted. Lost a year's worth of entries. My fault for not backing up, but still. Since I decided to go with MySQL as the backend and I had PHP, I decided to replace MT with Wordpress. I've never regretted it.
reazal, on 12/12/2007, -0/+5Perhaps it has something to do with the font installed in your OS. This is from the stylesheet:
font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans", Verdana, sans-serif;
idigit, on 12/12/2007, -6/+11The fact that it's Perl is a let down. I ran into all sorts of problems just trying to get it installed.
m3mn0n, on 12/13/2007, -1/+6Uh, yeah. PHP > all
inactive, on 12/13/2007, -1/+5Movable Type?! Don't tell the serfs!
geekoid, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3Incorrect. It's free for ANY use. Read the site.

"As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type *for any purpose you choose*."
redwallhp, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3I don't use any Perl-based software. When they go PHP, then Six Apart will have a viable Wordpress competitor. Until then... Wordpress FTW!
inactive, on 12/12/2007, -1/+4You have a point there..
TyCage, on 12/13/2007, -0/+3I can agree to disagree, but I see "open source" as meaning the source is open, meaning not closed, meaning I can see it. It doesn't have to mean I can do anything I want to do with the source code, just that I have it at my disposal to view it.

I know a lot of free software people have tried to make the term open source mean the same thing as some sort of GPL ideal, but I just don't think the definition of the words holds up to that.
geekoid, on 12/13/2007, -1/+3You mean like Digg, for example? All PHP.
georgehuff, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3Although I have heard good things of MT4 - it's too little too late. They were opensource and then they weren't, and now they are again - they lost so much steam from closing the doors and it will be a few years before they get it back, if at all.

I'll stick with Wordpress - which has shown opensource dedication from the start.
rspeed, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2We're not. This guy is an idiot, I agree.
ravan46, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2You are not clever
Darren05, on 12/12/2007, -1/+3Mine renders the same as cdawzrd and I have "Lucinda Sans" installed on Windows XP.
In firefox I have to increase the font size twice (ctrl +) to get it to render smooth, using firebug I set the font to Verdana and it is fine.
Pecnut, on 12/13/2007, -0/+2Am I the only person who didn't know what Movable Type is (and is then baffled by the website which doesn't explain either)?
inactive, on 12/12/2007, -2/+4It's too late for them.
Rageous, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Not including their comment forms, right?
diabolicalMdog, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2it'd be nice to get some details, the thing that's linked has a lot of fluff
ucg1, on 12/12/2007, -1/+2Who doesn't back up for a whole year? Oh yeah, you.

These days a lot of hosting companies will do backups for you. It's still good to save a dump of your database every so often.
m3mn0n, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1It had to, it's a fork of another project.
SuperSloth, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Good luck when you get more readership than yourself and your mom.
spartan777, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1soylent green is man!
CanoeBuilder, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Nice one, Gute!
FTLJohnson, on 12/12/2007, -4/+5ROT AND DIE. If you are a genuine Ron Paul supporter then I hope you die in a fire shortly after being hit by a truck carrying flammable acid. I would hope that actual supporters aren't stupid enough to think that spamming non-related articles is a good idea. I hope you choke on yourself.
MrViklund, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1GPL?
designcode, on 12/13/2007, -2/+2Nice XMAS gift for open source lovers.
m3mn0n, on 12/13/2007, -1/+1Optimized for Mac :P
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