Movable Type Open Source 4.1 Stable Released

The first stable release of Movable Type Open Source was released a few days ago. Apologies for not posting earlier, but I was away on business!

You can get a copy here

There are a few minor differences between the open source and commercial versions, but they won't affect the majority of users - the key is technical support and a couple of extras that are only available to commercial license holders.

Of course the other advantage to the open source version is that you can have unlimited authors, blogs etc.,

(This site runs on a commercial license)

Byrne Reese, MT's product manager, posted the following to the MTOS developer list:

To keep everyone up to date, I have been working on the website all morning
to clean it up and orient it more around the MTOS project as opposed to the
commercial product.

Up until now there has always been a little tension regarding how to best
serve the MT user community on the .org site, because many users visiting
the site were simply wanting to download MT for free, and the best thing we
could direct them to was a stable, but closed source version. That in my
mind was unavoidable but it was something other OS advocates (not MT users
necessarily) noticed as well [7].

Now that we finally have a stable MTOS release, the mt.org site I think will
gain greater focus and conflict less with it's movabletype.com counterpart,
as was always the plan.

I would like to say that it is my wish to keep movabletype.org focused on
the open source and community driven efforts (plugins, styles, articles,
news, etc) as much as humanly possible. That is my commitment to the MTOS
community. It may be a challenge at times, but I think as a community we can
learn to strike the balance that feels right to us.

What that means in essence is that MovableType.org will be focussing on the open source product, while the .com (MovableType.com) will focus on the commercial release.