I feel SixApart has deceived us in a HUGE way. I have 8 family members maintaining 10 blogs on an iMac running MovableType. MT’s new license would require me to “turn pro” and pay upwards to $700. Good grief! It’s just a family blog.
C A R T H I K . N E T ?? Moving from movable type to WordPress
I don’t see why you would pay *anything* if you’re not paying now. A lot of people seem to be upset so you can watch over the next few weeks and see what people are doing. WordPress looks like it would be good, but it also looks like you can continue to use MT 2.5 for as long as you want in the meantime.
I have no problem paying for useful software. I like to try before I buy, but if I find something really useful, I like to pay and stay current. MovableType replaced the Family Diary Hypercard stack I built, moving it to the web and extending the family.
But once they start charging money you have to start looking around to see if there is something else that you previously wouldn’t have considered because it cost more at the time. iPodLounge runs on pMachine which can also be used for blogging. The personal edition of pMachine is $45 and allows pretty much unlimited users and weblogs with no rebuilding. And it allows importing of MT blogs. But it requires MySQL. Does this site use that?
I’m kind of surprised they did this considering that Blogger just upgraded their free blog to allow things like comments and such.
If it helps in your decision, Jeb, I’ve been considering (hesitantly) switching the RA blog to blogger, just because it would resolve that updating problem I was having with ASP.NET pages. But if I stick with yours, I have zero problem pitching in to help with the cost.