Movable Type Admits Defeat
Posted on June 13, 2007
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Every time I land on a Movable Type blog I get a twinge of nostalgia mixed with respect for how clean the lines are. But MT was so long ago, and as with most everybody else I moved over to WordPress when MT decided to charge. Now they’ve decided to stop charging and go open source. Too late.
Too many plugins for WP, too many amazing free themes, or even modestly priced themes. Too many designers who can work with WP for that matter too, including most of the theme designers, who are often open to customizing to suit. Ed Burnette over at ZDNet says that the surge in adoption of WordPress went a long way towards this mushrooming cloud of blogs we have today.
In fact, go read his article, which is very brief and readable, and even better has a couple of Google Trend graphs that show the flat trajectory of Movable Type compared with the soaring, open-source, completely free, and so-easy-to-install curve of WordPress over the last three years.
Ed Burnette in a few paragraphs has made the perfect historical, definitive illustration of the power of free software on the free Web, and he points out that WP made money on the sidelines, so everybody won, and keeps on winning yet.
Go on, go look…it’s called Movable Type becomes free again…
-Ross Hunter
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