minorthird

you’ve read it elsewhere, and honestly, I’m not involved enough to even try to make a strong argument for or against the new MT3.0(for fee). Yes, development time costs money, and yes if you offer something for free on an honor system, people will take advantage of it. But, there is a huge downside: the alienation of the small customer.

I work for a company that offered a few free online services to teachers, and recently we went “for-fee.” The geniuses in the marketing department predicted a 25% adoption — 25% means that 75% of our customers would leave. The final result: 8%!!! Ouch!

Who would have thought that the teachers would be some angry at us for asking for money? Oh…not me…

A sidenote: the latest version of non-3.0 MT is still available: http://www.movabletype.org/download.shtml. If that stops working, let me know…I have the files.

I figure, I don’t use MT to the fullest, and most people don’t either, so why upgrade?

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