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Open sourcery

You can hear the call echo across the blogosphere: Movable Type is now open source. But let’s get down to brass tacks, shall we? What does this development mean to me?

Directly: Not a thing, really. Examining code makes me feel like I’m trying to read goat entrails. I have no desire to download nightly builds. I have a paid license for Six Apart support, which works (except on those unfortunate occasions, rare though they are, when it doesn’t).

Indirectly: It means a great deal. Even after the whole MT 3.0 licensing kerfluffle, a core of dedicated MT fans and experts stayed with the platform. These are people who actually like the feel of goat entrails. Their plugins and workarounds and advice and direct contributions to MT have been of great help to people like me who eschew hosted blogging solutions in favor of more extensible options, but whose knowledge and ability when it comes to coding is limited. That community will be reinvigorated by MT’s move to open source, and that can only rebound to my benefit.

Which is what counts, after all.

So you MT demigods, you hackers and consultants: the source is open. Get busy with it! I’ll be asking you for favors very soon.

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