May 18, 2004

More on MovableType :: Mena wants to know how we are using MovableType

Liza Sabater

Christian Crumlish will be blogging soon about how he uses MT to publish the myriad of sites he has (10 at last count). I'm pretty sure Christopher Filkins uses it. I'll blog about how I use MT from c u l t u r e k i t c h e n.

Kudos to SixApart for the effort.

With Six Log: How are you using the tool?, SixApart are making a bold statement.

Mena Trott writes:

If free isn't an issue for you and you're willing to pay for a version of Movable Type (say the $69 version) and the blog/author limits won't work for your current use, write a non-emotional post explaining how you're using Movable Type and TrackBack this entry.

Fantastic. This is where I get a bit flustered :

Bad Example: I don't want to pay for my weblogs and I don't want limits and I don't like Six Apart.
Good example: I'm running one group weblog that's non-commercial for 13 of my friends on our softball team and my three children, husband and I also all have personal weblogs. That's 6 weblogs and 19 authors total. The cost for this setup is a bit prohibitive for my personal hobby.

Mena or anybody at 6A, I have an honest question. What do you mean by:

  1. Commercial
  2. Personal Hobby

My business is writing. I have GoogleAds on my blog. My blog and my contributions to RFB are not hobbies. They are ways of promoting what I do. Does this mean that I am using the product for commercial purposes?

Without this piece of information I believe Chris, Xian and I cannot accurately answer your request.

Posted by liza at May 18, 2004 8:39 PM
Comments

It was made clear a few months ago that ads like Google's do not constitute "commercial" purposes. Sorry I don't have a link but I think it was Mena who wrote this.

Posted by: filchyboy at May 18, 2004 9:25 PM

Thanks filch.

Still, it is not on the licensing agreement. I think these details need to be added because blogs are a new kind of business. They need to clarify how, even if you are making money out of it, it would not be considered commercial. Failure to do so would indicate they are playing the legal department game : Leave it vague enough so we can exploit it later.

Four years at a Fortune500, dealing with Marketing, R&D and Legal almost on a daily basis, have left me scarred for life. I know how those legal games are played and they can get downright nasty.

Heck! Look at SCO with the Linux kernel.

Posted by: liza at May 18, 2004 10:22 PM
Other incoming links (via Technorati)

Hosted by Mediajunkie.

Sponsors
On this day in 2003
"Joan Osborne Wakes the Dead".: "Joan Osborne Wakes the Dead". From RollingStone.com: "People like that social aspect of listening to the band," Osborne says of the road legends. "You're not just fan of the music, you are part of this community of people who are interested in seeing them in all different ways and collecting tapes,... (Miscellany)