{"id":1585,"date":"2003-06-23T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/help-ben-and-mena-get-it-right\/"},"modified":"2003-06-23T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T00:35:17","slug":"help-ben-and-mena-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/23\/help-ben-and-mena-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Ben and Mena get it right"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMovable Type<\/a> is putting together a developer’s program and wants your input:<\/p>\n

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Based on the comments and questions raised about offering support services, we’ll be working on creating a Movable Type Developer\/Service Provider Network that will rely more on a software\/service-provider relationship rather than that of licensor\/licensee. We’d love to hear what you think about this sort of a program and if you have any ideas or suggestions of how it would work best for you as a service-provider or developer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Email your comments to: developnet@movabletype.org<\/a><\/p>\n

If it were up to me, there would be no limitations on the ability of third parties to provide support, enhancements, or redistribution of Movable Type, as long as all the end-users of said services are in compliance with the terms of MT’s license, but I would also charge a nominal fee, on the order of $25, for every non-commercial user. Seems to me that the issue is to induce more people to pay MT, not to prevent others from making money off MT. But that’s just me, I didn’t write the code, and there are lots of ways to spin it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Movable Type is putting together a developer’s program and wants your input: Based on the comments and questions raised about offering support services, we’ll be working on creating a Movable Type Developer\/Service Provider Network that will rely more on a software\/service-provider relationship rather than that of licensor\/licensee. We’d love to hear what you think about … Continue reading “Help Ben and Mena get it right”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}