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Don Park links to an interesting post from one of the commenters on Six Apart's new licensing for MT. It's kind of amusing to watch. I'm sure that a lot of people have enjoyed using MT for free, and gotten a lot of blogs set up. Now ask yourself - what has Six Apart gotten for that? And don't say "positive press" or "love from the open source community" - because neither of those things pays any bills. There's a simple reason that MT is going to start costing real money - it's a business, and I'm sure that the developers want to be able to eat.
Not everyone wants to give away their software and "sell services around it". That often requires travel, and guess what? Not everyone wants to travel. Take it from someone who's spent a lot of time on the road - you pay a price for it. You don't expect your stereo to be free, or the TV - why the heck should you expect software to be free?
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