{"id":1131,"date":"2004-05-14T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T00:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1131.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"its-he-eeere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2004\/05\/14\/its-he-eeere\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s he-eeere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movabletype.org\/\">Movable Type 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mena's Corner: It's About Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/corner\/archives\/2004\/05\/its_about_time.shtml\">Mena explains.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you look at the trackbacks at the bottom of Mena&#8217;s post, it looks like the reception it is getting is <em>terrible<\/em>.  No-one seems to be grumbling about the quality of the software (well, apart from the lack of revolutionary new features); it all seems to be about the pricing structure.<\/p>\n<p>To me, though, it looks perfectly reasonable.  Well over a year ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2003\/02\/17\/jam_tomorrow\/\">I mused<\/a> about how much MT Pro would cost when it was released.  Well, MT Pro never really happened.  Instead, we&#8217;ve got MT 3, and for personal use, my estimate from back then isn&#8217;t a million miles off.  The big difference is the sheer variety of pricing options Six Apart have come up with.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all good, people.  Movable Type is high quality, sophisticated, and powerful software.  No-one is forcing you to upgrade from your existing MT 2.x weblogs, and if you don&#8217;t want to pay for your using it to run a single, personal weblog, you can use the free version.<\/p>\n<p>But if you <em>want<\/em> to run multiple blogs with multiple authors, and you <em>want<\/em> access to the latest features, then cough up already.<\/p>\n<p>Movable Type 3 coming soon to this blog right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movabletype.org\/\">Movable Type 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mena's Corner: It's About Time\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/corner\/archives\/2004\/05\/its_about_time.shtml\">Mena explains.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-movable_type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}