Of course Six Apart has the right to charge whatever they want for MovableType, but having repeatedly said that they would provide a free version of MovableType 3.0 for personal use then announcing this crippleware that is MT 3.0 personal is stupid at best, dishonest at worst.
Enraging your first customers and your developer community is a strange path to business success. Hopefully they will reconsider after being enveloped in the perfect storm that is brewing.
Update: 21:58 5/13/2004
After I wrote this post this morning I had second thoughts about it, especially the title, which has a moralistic and judgmental tone that isn't appropriate. If it wasn't for my belief that it is almost always dishonest to rewrite or pretend you didn't write something that you have already published, I would take the post down. Instead, I wrote a new version of it: Ben and Mena: You forgot to dance with who brung ya
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How dare you say that about Ben and Mena.
You aren't fit to lick their boots.
Posted by: Anil on May 20, 2004 07:54 PM