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Details On The Open Source Version Of Movable Type

By Scott Gilbertson November 5, 2007 Categories: Blog Publishing, Software & Tools

Mt4When Six Apart first announced it would release an open source version of the popular blogging tool, Movable Type, it initially indicated that the open source variation would lack some of the features in the proprietary version. However the company seems to have changed its mind.

In a comment posted on the original announcement, Byrne Reese, Product Manager for Movable Type writes:

this is our current thinking:

  • What will be MTOS will be available from subversion this month (November 2007) - actually MT 4.01 is available from svn now at code.sixapart.com/svn/movabletype/branches/athena
  • The first release of MTOS will then be in December to coincide with the release of the next version of MT.
  • The feature set of MTOS will be that of MT4.0. There will be no feature in MT4 that will be removed from MTOS.

Judging by these details, MTOS will be identical it MT4. While that’s great news for those looking forward to hacking (or just using) the open source version of MT, it raises some questions for commercial users — what do you get for your money?

Obviously there’s support, but beyond that, what else might there be? For one thing, with MTOS’s December arrive timed with the next commercial update, it seems possible possible that Six Apart is adopting a model that sees commercial releases bring in new features well ahead of the open source version.

For the time being these questions remain up in the air, but at least now we know when the open source version is set to arrive and that it won’t be stripped down the way some believed it would.

[via CNet]

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