CEO van Six Apart geeft zijn visie op 2008

Chris Alden, de CEO van Six Apart (het bedrijf waar ik voor werk) heeft een lange post geschreven op onze corporate nieuwsweblog over de toekomst van Movable Type: MT in 2008: Open, Powerful and Easy.  Zeker de moeite van het lezen waard, ook voor WordPress gebruikers.

Enkele quotes:

Even if you never have or never will use a Six Apart product or service for your blogging, even if you are the most ardent WordPress supporter, you ought to rejoice in the fact that Six Apart and Movable Type are going to push, push, push the art and science of blogging forward and that we are committed to making blogging powerful and easy. While we have competed, MT and WP have helped each other in a fundamental way -- we by introducing blogging features and capabilities that they have not, and they by making blogging simpler and easier to use where we have not. A healthy competition will help BOTH platforms improve.

Over het Open Source maken van Movable Type:

And Movable Type has always been about freedom, but this was another fundamental tenet that may have become less clear along the way. Despite the fact that Six Apart has always been a major contributor to open source software, and MT itself is built largely on top of OSS, there was no fully open source version of MT. There was a disconnect between our intentions and the decisions we'd made about promoting and distributing Movable Type, and it was hurting us and the community. MT had relied on its innovations to move it forward -- after all, that's what put us on the map. But conversations about distribution and licensing should never overshadow the more important ideas of openness and innovation.

Over innovatie bij Six Apart:

Six Apart is where TrackBack and OpenID were invented, and we're the stewards of some of the major technologies that power today’s biggest Internet sites, such as Memcached (which is used by Facebook, Craigslist, Wikipedia, YouTube, Digg, and many more), Perbal, MogileFS, and DJabberd. We've been involved as founding supporters in initiatives such as the Atom protocol, OAuth, and OpenSocial.

Comments

[Geplaatst door: Daniel]

Maarten,

Op de weblog van Typepad staan heelwat nieuwe plannen en projecten aangekondigd voor het Typepad platform in 2008.
Ik ben razend benieuwd en hoop dat we daar snel als gebruiker de eerste resultaten van gaan zien. Kan je al een tip van de sluier lichten?

[Geplaatst door: Andhi]

Zijn ringbaardjes verplicht bij Six Apart? :-)

[Geplaatst door: nandrolone]

Het is echt een leuke en nuttige stukje informatie. Ik ben tevreden dat u deze nuttige informatie met ons gedeeld. Blijf ons op de hoogte als deze. Bedankt voor het delen.

[Geplaatst door: Lionel]

I think that china should be igonerd for a thousand years because of hese most terrible mistake. ruined the whole olympics for me. I think that if they had one guy holding a sparkler it would be better. Worst opening ever. I be the london one will be more exuberent and fanciful. No mistakes there whatsoever

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