Upgrading The Masses

A couple big events in the world of blogging. First, the Blogger interface has been redesigned. It looks more user-friendly and it has some cool features like blogging via e-mail. And Six Apart has released the developers’ version of Moveable Type 3.0. Every geek seems to have an opinion about the new licensing and fee structure in MT. Frankly, I could care less. I don’t have multiple blogs and I’m the only author on this one, so I can get away with the free version. Even if they did charge a fee for a personal license, I’d probably pay it. I tend to reward software publishers that make stuff I find useful. I sometimes think the free software movement has left us all a little spoiled and a little insensitive about the work that goes into creating good software. Free is good, but it shouldn’t be something something that we come to expect from every developer.