The creators of Movable Type are given a roasting over their license agreement. Any "commercial" use of Movable Type requires a $150 license; and the creators have recently asserted that this includes anything other than playing around with it at home; i.e., if you install it for a friend, you're using it for "commercial" purposes. Collectivist parasites and second-handers beware; Ben and Mena (and their army of lawyers) are coming to get you!
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Hmm... If MT don't fix up their attitude (given they've gotten VC funding recently they mightn't...) it should be fairly trivial to spit MT pages out in a format Blosxom or similar likes. It'll break all the permalinks, but, oh, I can use Apache's mod_rewrite.to handle the redirects..
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Tue Jul 1 14:00:51 2003
Hmm... If MT don't fix up their attitude (given they've gotten VC funding recently they mightn't...) it should be fairly trivial to spit MT pages out in a format Blosxom or similar likes. It'll break all the permalinks, but, oh, I can use Apache's mod_rewrite.to handle the redirects..