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On the 13th of this month, Sixapart announced the launch of Movabletype 3.0 developer edition. And guess what? Personal edition price – USD70! That for a version which yet does not support heirarchical categories. And what about the free version? Yes, that exists, but look at the restrictions – No more than one author and three weblogs. What? I cannot create more than three weblogs on my MT installation? Notice the difference. In the paid personal versions, they talk about ‘active weblogs’ number limit. In the free version, it is just plain ‘weblog’. Now that means I cannot even create a static blog (without any posts. I do that for managing static pages on my site). So much for the commitment to a free version. Hmmm, I have been beginning to like TXP off late.

Update(11:00 PM): Thanks to all for pointing out the error. I really missed out on that post on 6A. Meanwhile kottke also agrees, the new licensing mechanism is really confusing. And yes, I’ll wait for the discount code to see how much it works out to. I have been waiting to pay for an MT license since the time they announced the development of MT3.0. But sorry, I am still not going to shell out USD70 for this version. Mark Pilgrim sums it up. All said, Wordpress and TXP are still excellent alternatives to MT, I find, TXP especially for a photolog; not for ShutterBug, as it uses the most complex MT templates I have ever made.