Idiots Write About Sports

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Today, Six Apart announced new pricing for version 3.0 of Movable Type.

Now, I am one of those people who rolls their eyes at the vast number of people who refuse to pay for anything, who want everything for free. Of course we’d all like something for nothing. The people who build Movable Type deserve to be compensated for their work. (And my enjoyable experiences with Movable Type actually led to my company buying a license and using it commercially for our weblog publishing.)

All that said, the Movable Type 3.0 pricing options are ludicrous. Individual, productized “packs” with maximum numbers of blogs or users. And, I have to say it — it’s remarkably overpriced to boot. (For example, what if I want fewer users but more blogs? Or more blogs but fewer users? This scheme gives me no choice.)

Which is my long, off-topic way of saying: if this is how these guys think they can treat their customers — not asking for a reasonable amount and offering a flexible license, but gouging people who have invested in deploying their software — they will either be begging forgiveness tomorrow or out of business in a year.

If I’ve seen a better example of “pissing it all away,” I can’t think of it. Maybe Game 6 of the 2002 World Series.