In the early days of blogging, a content management thing called Movable Type appeared. It became the favourite tool of bloggers everywhere. It wasn’t free and open source, but it kinda felt free. Until it wasn’t, and the owners suddenly decided to charge all users for use of the software. Response was swift. Just about everybody switched to WordPress, and that was that.
Now it’s a lotta years later, and WordPress has made decisions that vex a lot of people. Kinda feels like a re-run to me. A lot of pissed-off WordPress users are suddenly looking for an alternative.
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@KolokokoBird (MT was released under GPL for a while though.)
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@downey Oh, was it? Interesting. And then they switched to being a commercial thing after that? I guess so.
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@KolokokoBird IIRC it went back and forth during the same time as all the dotcom era mergers .... many had already moved on by this point
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@downey Oh, thanks. I didn’t stick around for the details: I was one of the ones who left at the first “now you must pay us!” moment.
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@KolokokoBird same 😆
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@downey It is possible that you and I share the same grumpiness profile.
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