I’ve been using Wordpress for my various blog’s and used its themes to great effect. WP have siply no alternative.

I’m over it long-since, but shortly after that I found the article on switching to WP (thank you), and I immediately downloaded it and converted my modest site to WP.

Yes, that email is water under the bridge, but so is my regard for MT. The shifting policies, the comparative PITA (rebuilding, anyone?) of using MT, are all things I don’t have to deal with any more. The switch to OSS is just another cynical political shift, and there will be more to come. They are a Movable Type in more ways than one.

WP is still very rough around the edges using template tags and other functions.

But the only reason I ever started looking at WP was because after the MT pricing started I couldn’t afford it for what my needs have been.

In saying that I think it is great that MT is going open source, competition should always be welcomed as well as offering people alternatives and adds a bit of variety to things. MT going open is good news for Wordpress. WP will continue to push boundaries.

Over the last few years my goals changed, my life changed, my blogging stopped and then started again (at the new blogger no less) and I came back to Wordpress to find that it had matured into the best blogging platform out there (open or closed).

My opinion at the time was that 6A didn’t deserve the loyalty it was getting. Maybe they’ll finally repay that.

They had to worry about Livejournal, Vox, Typepad outages, and who knows what else so the core MT blogging product stalled and eventually Word Press surpassed them in features and community development.

Well I guess at the end of the day their having a good time with all the money they made.

Sorry MT/6A I wish you luck, but using your beta OS product now is a bit like washing your feet with your socks on it just doesn’t work for me, besides I’ve got enough baggage to deal without bringing you back into my life.

-Cheers

Why would anyone question a decision to move a product under GPL? If there’s an ulterior motive, it is that they want (or should want) community support to reemerge as a force. They need it now that the template system and innards are so difficult to fiddle with.

One of the wheels that fell off 6A’s wagon (in my personal opinion) is community infighting. I don’t think 6A are “full of themselves”, but I do think that can be said of some of the (Pronet) community. Before anyone gets excited, the exact same can be said for many in WP land.

WP needs to respect and learn from what MT has gone through. If 6A made a mistake, it was overestimating the ability/desire of their users to accept a monetized view of MT’s future. Let’s face it — WP wouldn’t exist if MT didn’t blaze the trail.

…And I can’t believe that people are still bitter about Mena’s price structure email from so long ago. Time to let that one go.

Jeezz, Carthik writes up a big long detailed post stuffed full of questions he (and many of us) would love to hear answers to (new pricing structure, etc), and all you can do is question Mary about her comments about MT staff being “too full of themselves”?

Do you not see the irony here?