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Movable Type Open Source Project: I know I had read this news a couple of times today but it obviously did not sink in until now. The light in my brain finally flickered on when I read through the RWW post in detail. Moveable Type announced the long awaited Version 4 of their publishing platform and along with that came the announcement that they would release a GPL’d Open Source version of their software in Q3 2007. That is a significant decision considering some of the past tribulations of the platform and in my mind validates the dual revenue model of Open Source Software based companies. According to the MTOS website, they are really committed to the commercial version of MT and are just replying to customers’ repeated requests for an Open Source version.

This sounds like a highly calculated business decision. I wonder what results Six Apart is hoping to get from releasing an Open Source version in excess of leveraging attention and whether an Open Source version will really do much for the codebase.

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   Movable Type Open Source Project  »Technology News | Venture Capital, Startups, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0 Tech — 06/5/2007 @ 4:52 pm

2. the thing that still sounds ominous is that this is a GPL-ed version… which leaves them room to keep the kewl new features under the same fee structure as before.

   adam (39 comments.) — 06/5/2007 @ 5:08 pm

3. Interesting. I’ll have to give it a go.

   Alex O (11 comments.) — 06/5/2007 @ 5:38 pm

4. let see how the mt open source community compares with wordpress community

   gautam (1 comments.) — 06/5/2007 @ 6:36 pm

5. Interesting… I think mt is used by the BBC for their bloggers, so it’s undeniably robust. However, I think it’s too early to see their real intentions behind the move. Hope you’ll continue to follow this story! Thanks!

   Mosey — 06/5/2007 @ 6:39 pm

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   Bitácora de Alex Vera » Blog Archive » MTOS Proyect-> MovableType Open Source Proyect — 06/5/2007 @ 7:10 pm

7. [...] 在Weblog Tools Collection看到消息，MovableType这个著名的Blog发布平台将在2007年第三季度推出开源版本，按照官方的说法，之所以这样做是为了“响应客户和社区的要求”，不过我看主要是迫于Wordpress的压力吧，MT是非常优秀的Blog平台，但因其复杂度高、可定制性差和收费，使得很多用户转向开源免费、简单易用、自由度高的Wordpress，现在Wordpress已经是世界第一了，MT再不做出些动作恐怕它的市场会进一步缩小，推出开源项目既可说是顺势而为，也可说是无奈之举，而对于用户，竞争自然是好事，希望有更多更好的选择摆在我们面前。 [...]

   X.Burkr - MovableType也开源 — 06/5/2007 @ 10:24 pm

8. [...] Found via Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » Movable Type Open Source Project [...]

   Digitally Twisted Media » Blog Archive » Movable Type Open Source Project? — 06/5/2007 @ 11:35 pm

9. MovableTypeがオープンソースに…

   Weblog Tools Collectionにこんな記事がありました。
   Moveable Type announced the long awaited Version 4 of their publishing platform and along with that came the announcement that they would release a GPL’d Open Source version of their soft…

   Socialpreneur — 06/5/2007 @ 11:52 pm

10. old wordpress challenge, but Wp is force

    zoel (4 comments.) — 06/6/2007 @ 1:04 am

11. sounds like someone @ MT finally gets it.

    boink (1 comments.) — 06/6/2007 @ 1:29 am

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    The Ten Thousand Year Blog » Movable Type Open Source Project — 06/6/2007 @ 10:59 am

13. [...] wrote: Movable Type Open Source Project - “This sounds like a highly calculated business decision. I wonder what results Six Apart is [...]

    SixApart Creates Buzz — Lisa Sabin-Wilson — 06/6/2007 @ 2:00 pm

14. MT is old news. Left behind in the blogosphere… It is either WP or nothing for me.

    Guy R. Vestal (10 comments.) — 06/6/2007 @ 4:56 pm

15. [...] you have to wonder, as do quite a few other folks around the Net, why open source and why now? As Carthik pointed out, the SixApart blog [...]

    SixApart’s Latest Curveball: MovableType’s Open Source Project | Pixelita Design Blog — 06/7/2007 @ 5:45 am

16. From a wordpress user’s perspective: http://avarus.com.ar/blog/2007/06/09/movabletype-4-beta1-its-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/

    Perhaps interesting,
    avarus.

    avarus (1 comments.) — 06/9/2007 @ 8:20 pm

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    WeblogToolsCollection Español » Blog Archive » Proyecto Open Source de Movable Type — 06/14/2007 @ 2:51 pm

18. I remember when it was free in the first place. It wasn’t all that great to use back then either.

    James W. (1 comments.) — 07/8/2007 @ 2:58 am

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