As Dave says in a post today, people should stop whining about the new pricing policy for Movable Type:
Six Apart announced new pricing for Movable Type and hell breaks loose. The users are acting as children, saying somehow they didn't know that eventually Six Apart would charge for their software. I knew they were going to charge, why didn't you? I can say this because I'm not a customer (I do use their software, but I didn't pay for it) and I'm not them. But I've been where they are and it sucks. No one's perfect. If you use their software, you owe them some money. If you don't like the price, don't use it. Amazingly they're not asking for money if you use the new software in a limited form, or continue to use the old software. Users who can't get behind that are people we don't need to work with. Everything costs money. When you drive to the gas station, try whining at the attendant, and see how much gas you get. Do it enough and they'll call the cops.
I write software, and I need to get paid for it if it going to be my day job. Six Apart has been very generous with Movable Type, and the prices they are asking are very fair. I use the very spiffy hosted version of MT, Typepad, and I pay them for that. I personally like paying for software, because I like the enhancements that come directly from having money to pay developers.
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