Movable Type 4.0 to Go Open Source
Realizing that one of the keys to the success of WordPress is the fact that it’s open source, blogging platform Movable Type is about to follow suit.
Moveable Type 4.0 is the first major release of Movable Type since MT 3.0 in 2004 and comes complete with a market disrupting announcement: SixApart will open source Movable Type before the end of the third quarter.
There’s a lot of history between MT users and SixApart. Although Movable Type was never an open source platform, prior to the release of MT 3.0 many treated MT as if it was open source. The decision to enforce licensing with the release of MT 3.0 caused widespread outrage in 2004 and in many ways was a tipping point that delivered WordPress from relative obscurity to being the popular blogging CMS it is today.
The stupid LiveJournal scandal aside, SixApart will have a lot of catching up to do. WordPress has superior features, a bigger user base, and a strong developer community. Personally, I wouldn’t be caught dead running software from the company that runs such n00b pits as LiveJournal and Vox.
N00bs like Leo Laporte (http://leoville.vox.com/) ?
I have a Vox account too. Like Leo, I don’t make it my primary site.
I find it unfortunate that instead of celebrating people who are just discovering this medium, you’re busy criticizing their platforms. We should all be on the side of getting more people blogging, no?
In any market, those who are first to innovate and stake claim will usually dominate the market… MT may just be too late
i prefer Vox for personal blogging. It’s very limited but the fact that I could upload pictures and videos for free is good. :~)
Okay, so Vox is less of a n00b pit than LiveJournal. Techies like Jepoy and Leo redeem it to some extent.
but Vox is still a n00b magnet :~)
MT4…
Wow, I go off on a little business trip and miss all the foofoorah over Movable Type 4. Aside from being what sounds like a big rewrite with lots……
There seems to be a lot of emotion over a company that has the most choices to offer any kind of blogger. I intend to check out the beta before offering criticism… I hear MT4 is quite compelling and worth giving a try.
I’ve been running Movable Type 3.2 on Yahoo for while….I love it!! Movable Type 4.0 is now released, however Yahoo has not upgraded from version 3.2. My understanding is that Yahoo has not yet tested or approved 4.0 on it’s servers for “Automatic” updates.
Does anyone know when Yahoo is going to upgrade the Movable Type version they provide in their Web Hosting from version 3.2 to 4.0?
Also, where can we find step-by-step instructions to manually install 4.0 to upgrade 3.2 on a Yahoo! hosted version?
Thanks
Ed
Peningo Systems
Well, I’m not *certain*, but I think Yahoo, like any really big corporation is really slow to make changes. I have a client who was running MT3.2 on Yahoo SB and I managed to run a manual upgrade to get MT3.35 running. It was a bit of a hassle, but only because running the upgrade meant disabling Yahoo’s hooks, and getting to PHPMyAdmin through Yahoo’s control panel was virtually impossible. All in all, it can be done.