Mena asked the folks who were complaining about MT licensing schemes to document "how" they use MT, and to do in a non-inflammatory nature, etc.
So, here goes.
I have a number of blogs ... I have this blog (with one author), a "newsblog" for writing stories about the Yankees (with three authors), and host blogs for several of my friends (most of which are one author each, and there's four or five of those). I also host a blog for a friend of mine's "geek posse" where they write about various geek-things of interest to them (although at the moment they haven't used it lately, but they keep telling me that's going to change)... that's eight authors. I also maintain a separate, 'private' blog, that is .htaccess protected so that only trusted individuals can see it. That's just one author on that.
I have no problem paying for MT (I paid my $20.00 for my license key for my 2.x installation), but the pricing scheme (as presently described) is just way too far outside my budget for something I do "for fun" and "to help my friends communicate with the world". Most of these people only have blogs because it was both easy and free to get it set up for them (since I'd incurred the cost up-front). If they were to have to pay to keep the blog going, they'd probably just shut it down.
If the licensing stands as-is, I'd probably keep all the group blogs on 2.x, and migrate each of the "individual" blogs to separate installations of 3.x. I might pay for my installation, but that would have to depend on what value was actually provided for that money (since I don't need any of the things like support and such).
Cheers,
D
Is it just me, or is Mena Trott starting to morph into Dave Winer?
"To keep focus on scenarios that can help shape changes in the licensing, I'm going to delete TrackBacks that are detracting or commentaries on Six Apart."
I'd point out that until Mena starts personally attacking people and posting inflammatory diatribes and deleting them an hour or 7 later, it's unfair to compare her to Dave.
It's not unreasonable for them to consider the non-constructive criticisms to be detracting from their goal of shaping the licensing in a way that it's users/customers find acceptable. Remember, they are a company. Dave is just a prick (or so I've read).