Tech: How Ning could learn from Moveable Type’s licensing folly
- 2004 Six Apart announces that they’re going to limit the free version of their Moveable Type.
- 2006 Moveable Type makes it free for personal use again, after open-source WordPress quickly leapfrogs it.
- thurs. Ning, a free social network creator, decides to start charging all users – including the many free users.
- today Social network hubs Grouply and grou.ps, offer to take on Ning’s old users. See the parallels, kids?