KISS Principle Continues to Fail Movable Type Crew

I have to agree with you totally. First of all MT wasn't significantly better than its other competitors. It was better and it was preferred because of being "cool", but it wasn't way way better. So what happened is that by the community support and being "free enough", it developed and developed and came to this point. But still, we are talking about blogging, you don't even need a software like MT to blog, you can blog without such software. But more importantly, you can blog with equally well software like WordPRess and so on.

Now, what happened is that, I think SixApart overestimated its coolness effect on people. Now it is not cool to pay 600$ for something you do as a hobby. It is not even cool to pay 100$ or 70$ for this software. After this incident and still, MT is not cool anymore. People who think they are being cool will realize that sooner or later MT will stop to exist. First of all, it directly competes with their Typepad service.

Maybe they just want to stop developing MT and focus on Typepad.

Posted by Jim at May 15, 2004 4:10 PM