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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Saturday, June 19, 2004 9:50:09 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:45:16 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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-A web publishing platform, much used among bloggers. Available
[here
|http://www.movabletype.org/].
+[MovableType
|http://www.movabletype.org/] is a very popular, commercial WebLog system
.
-The
licensing terms are no longer favourable;
a good
[GPL
] replacement
is [WordPress|http://www.wordpress
.org/
].
+Until recently, it was [free] for most people, and for some classes of users it had been promised to always be. Then the
licensing terms were changed and a lot of hoolabaloo ensued, because the promises were largely broken by the changes and a lot of casual users would have had to pay steep prices. The terms of license soon changed again according to feedback, so that few people who shouldn't be
are affected anymore.
+
+Nevertheless, it made many realize that non-[Free] software can be
a trap, even if it's
[free
] and the SourceCode
is available. (Just like
[RMS] has been saying
.)
+
+Unfortunately, all [GPL
]ed replacements seem to be written in [PHP]. One of the better ones is WordPress
.
