Six Apart made what they call a "brief explanation clarifying some points" on their current PR Nightmare.
The big one is basically that they now say a single weblog may be a collection of weblogs as long as it displays as one entity. I am contemplating splitting some stuff off my main blog, photography related things that many people just don't care for, so with an additional blog that means extra RSS feed etc. This is something that a lot of people do and they have now recognized that their 5 weblog limit would ruin it for a lot of people. Now it is unlimited.
They have also made a nice compromise on licencing for a setup like mine, I could install the basic Personal Edition for $70 which allows for 5 authors and I can buy additional authors for $10 each. That is good, it is a solution I can afford and use, I can easily move the $10 once off fee to whoever I am hosting the blog for if they are that eager to get it hosted.
I think though that this is too little too late, they have effectively made themselves the poster child for the evils of Free but not Open Source software and so I will still be contemplating moving to something else, currently I am leaning towards the GPL WordPress system but it requires MySQL and that is something I need to still contemplate since I am not a fan and do not have it on my primary server.
I need to weigh up the time required to move away, redo the web design etc and the fact that no doubt my permLinks will now be not so perm anymore. Loss in Google penetration etc. Maybe WordPress can output stories in the same format as MovableType, at least in the same URL's so that won't change. Good thing is WordPress has a MT import function so that's half the battle won.
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