Ginger explains clearly and thoroughly why those who are now defending Movable Type's ill-received announcement about its new licensing scheme are wrong to simply say "why don’t you people want to pay for your software?" Read it all and you'll see.

Ginger and Michael are the ones who got me started on Movable Type. (They got me started blogging in the first place, too, but that's a different story.) I've evangelized for MT myself many times since then. I admit that unlike them, I never made a donation to SixApart for my usage of their software, but I have done my share to help support the user community - my posts on getting started and configuring categories have helped numerous people, according to the feedback I've gotten. I wouldn't object to paying something for version 3.0, but I do think the price is rather steep for an upgrade that doesn't promise a lot of new features, and the terms of use scare me.

I think SixApart still has a chance to make things right with its disgruntled base, but it's gotta start with an admission that they misjudged. Nobody's perfect, after all. But do give us something to work with here, OK?