{"id":2487,"date":"2004-05-13T04:49:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/13\/movabletype-30-ouch\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:40:46","slug":"movabletype-30-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/13\/movabletype-30-ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"MovableType 3.0: Ouch"},"content":{"rendered":"

So SixApart<\/a> revealed the pricing structure for MovableType 3.0<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

One word.<\/p>\n

Ouch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dad, Kirsten — we may have to figure something else out for hanscomfamily.com<\/a> and geekmuffin.com<\/a> soon. Since I’m running both of you off of my server, I’m not eligible for the free version of MT 3.0, and the various licensing options are a bit rich for my blood.<\/p>\n

Reasons the free version won’t work: No support from Six Apart, No access to paid installation service, No access to fee-based services, No promotion of your weblogs through the Recently Updated list<\/strong>, No commercial usage, No more than one author and three weblogs<\/strong>. Plus a few other apparent caveats that are pointed out in the second and third updates to Shelley Powers’ post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n Just caught this. The following are what you get, specifically, with the paid version of MT 3.0 that are conspicuously missing from the free version:<\/p>\n