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May 15, 2004
MT3 - you just stepped in it.
Six Apart screwed the proverbial pooch earlier this week when announcing the release of the “Developer Edition” of Movable Type 3.0 and the new pricing and licensing conditions thereof.
Less than 48 hours later they were apologizing to beta testers and struggling to reposition and clarify their announcement. Many users (some rather prominent) of MT have already started the exodus to new software, what with the MT3 announcement being foolishly close to a new release of WordPress and the Google-powered Blogger relaunch.
The announcement - timing, content, and tone - shows a stunning lack of business and customer relationship acumen, especially when understood in the context of what was aparently a very rough beta period and many public statements on what MT3 would be. Scary, really.
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has what is likely the most intelligent and concise commentary on the matter.
Mark Pilgrim and Brad Choate also have intellgent things to say and good point to make, even if they’re ultimately on different sides of the fence.
Me? I don’t know. I’ve already been considering some site overhaul ideas of my own, preparing for work on littlejenni.com, and starting to examine publishing systems for work implementations. This just throws more questions, rather than answers, into my plans…
Posted by jim at May 15, 2004 10:46 PM