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personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

If you want to know what "bad press" is, skim through the trackbacks to Mena Trott's last posting.

If you want to know what "low credibility" is, remember Mena Trott asking us to trust her (which is, when done by a company, no different from a doctor who has bad news), promising to improve the then non-existing communication between company and users, presenting TypeKey as a nice to have goodie that you don't have to use if you don't want to, while Ben Trott preferred to withdraw from the discussion on this blog as soon as the questions got to the point.

And what did we get? A bizarre licensing model with an idiosyncratic definition of "commitment to a free version" that doesn't even grant free licenses to schools or NGOs or basically anyone who uses MT for what it is build for, for handling multiple blogs. A weblog that wanted "to show the inner workings of a start-up", but is a filled with poor marketing rhetorics and thus fails to comply with its own demands. And TypeKey? As shown before, it has nothing to do with fighting spam, as Ben so fiercely wanted to make us believe. It is so central to Six Apart's business strategy that you can't even download the free version of MT3 without having a TypeKey account. To quote vowe: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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