MT, MT, MT
The world is abuzz because of Movable Type’s new pricing. I haven’t decided
what I think yet. On the one hand, it’s still free for me so who cares, right?
On the other hand it’s not free software (but I am writing this from my Mac…).
On top of that I found the first and second thing I don’t like about MT. One of
those is the pricing, the other is comment counts aren’t updated after they’re
posted. I’m not sure which of those is number one and which is number two. But
they’re both there. I don’t know what I’m going to do about it yet. This is
exactly the kind of thing that hacks me off about proprietary software. If you
start to depend on it you find that you’re suddenly getting screwed, and it
doesn’t feel very good. The real bummer about this is that there’s nothing
comparable. I already mentioned my disappointment with PHP-Nuke,
LiveJournal and Drupal. Because of all the activity on the MT TalkBack
I’ve discovered a few more, vis Wordpress and TextPattern, both of which have
their inadequacies and are written in PHP. Now, I’m not particularly against
PHP, but every CMS I’ve encountered that is written in PHP requires
register_globals
. The source of all security holes in every PHP application
is register_globals
. Enough about this. I don’t want to talk about it
anymore.