Comments on: Movable Type 3.0 Licensing

By: sam

sam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think you should write to them what you wrote here in your entry. Perhaps ask for an explanation, or better yet, request that Movable Type consider a sliding scale for small businesses.

By: Justin Baeder

Justin Baeder — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jeff-
Wow, you’re the second person I know whom I’ve found via Trackbacks from Mena’s post. I agree – this is enough to make one jump ship. What’s really weird is that there’s no license equivalent to what you can get free with 2.661 – unlimited blogs and unlimited authors. It’s simply not available. Weird.

Do you know of any other good blogging tools that have comparable features and static (e.g. non-PHP) output? I don’t want my pages hidden inside a database where Google can’t find them.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I'm going to get an email out to them shortly. I'm considering Textpattern or the next version of WordPress for my new sites. They're both in PHP and serve dynamic pages, but they use Apache's mod_rewrite to avoid using query strings in the URLs. To a search engine spider, it would look the same as a static page. WordPress is open source/GPL, which is a big plus.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sam: My home-brewed weblog software (php/mysql based) is dynamically generated and highly google friendly. All entries can be accessed in the form of /yyyy/mm/dd or /entryID.

There’s a number of tricks, either with apache or with URL parsing that can be used to make friendly urls.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here's the text of an email that I sent to Six Apart CEO Mena Trott, and Anil Dash, Vice President of Business Development.

By: mike.whybark.com

mike.whybark.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Apparently, I’m not alone.

Michael and Jeff have similar isues with the upgrade, based on the number of blogs and authors they are currently hosting….