Observation

gnat on 2002-04-16T05:37:14

Blogs kept with Radio are filled with "hmm, it's not working" and "sorry for the strange entries!" and "I get this error message".

Blogs kept with Movable Type have none of that. Funny, huh?

--Nat


Bah

autarch on 2002-04-16T05:54:30

Moveable Type still has a really irritating license.

Not that I actually want to have a weblog, so I don't care that much.

PPerl

Matts on 2002-04-16T07:30:31

I wonder if MT works with PPerl. Anyone want to try it?

Re:PPerl

ask on 2002-04-16T09:49:43

MT supports mod_perl since v2.0. It works great.

For the license; well, I for one don't see the real problem. They are doing a really good job and they are really nice about everything. As far as I am concerned it's no worse than some random GPL'ed software.

    - ask

Re:PPerl

Matts on 2002-04-16T10:51:22

Yeah I know MT supports mod_perl. But some people don't have mod_perl. It's a lot harder to install than just about any other solution, as well you know ;-)

As far as the license goes, I try not to complain about licenses too much. It's their software to do what they want with it. But I'm also very aware that I've produced some very useful free software (AxPoint, PDFLib.pm) based on basically a non-free software license (www.pdflib.com), and that sort of thing gives me cause for pause, and to wish there were a totally free alternative that were just as good. But there isn't, so people have to stump up the cash, and I have no problem with people making money off what they've built. I sometimes even get quite jealous about it ;-)

MT is very well done

hfb on 2002-04-16T14:37:45

I even felt guilty for having so much fun with it that I sent them some money to assuage my sponge-like feeling :) The only nit I have so far is the way it deals with the dreaded locale since I have another blog where I'd like to set the months and days in Finnish but I'll probably have to shoehorn something in for that to work.