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December 18, 2007

Movable Type is Open Source

Movable Type made the choice recently to move their products to open source.  Good for them.  Their platform will continue to evolve.  As this blog is hosted on TypePad, basically a simplified version of a Movable Type installation, I am curious to see what other applications and add-ons are created.  Some speculate that this is a desperate attempt to continue to compete with WordPress, which is also open source, for blog users.  A lot of complaints have been leveled at MT, while I see relatively few for WP.  Keep an eye out for future MT developments--I think we will all be pleasantly rewarded by the OS development community.

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Actually, I think a fair number of us WP users have one complaint: The WYSIWYG editor has a nasty tendency to swallow paragraph breaks--even if you insert them in direct HTML.

But WP does so many things so well, including defaulting to great printability and having a great choice of templates...we just curse a little and move on.

Telling: You almost never hear of anyone moving from WP to MT, while you hear about people moving from MT (and other SixApart blogs) to WP all the time.

Posted by: walt crawford | December18, 2007

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