This is old news, sort of. A ways back, Six Apart promised that it would open source MovableType, their flagship software product, and the software that underlies their TypePad service. Yesterday, they finally released it. This blog (and my personal blog) were on TypePad for years, and I rather like the MoveableType interface and feature set. Their new version, MT4, looks pretty good, and it’s a great thing that it’s now open source (released under the GPL v2, interestingly enough.)
I’m liking Six Apart more and more these days. They are really putting their money where their mouth is, in terms of working toward more openness. They’ve been supporting open standards for years. Had this happened 6 months ago, when I was ready to migrate my blogs, I would have just migrated them to MT4, instead of WordPress. But, that said, I like WordPress, too.
I imagine that this is a bit of a response to WordPress (others think so too.) It will be interesting to see how this all plays out – both are incredibly strong applications. MovableType is written in Perl, which I hadn’t realized until I was doing research for this blog entry. But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install. So here’s another good option for organizations that want powerful blogging software to use on a generic (read: cheap) hosting environment. Hurray!
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