Movable Type 3.0 is out. There are now several versions available, all but one of which cost money. The blogsphere has gone into a bit of a frenzy about this.

Me? I couln't care less. I'm still running MT version 2.11, so you can see I'm not bound to upgrade. Even if I did, the free version would suit me fine. One shoddy blog, one shoddy author. Even if it wasn't, I'm happy to pay for good software. (I expect to get paid for mine, after all.) Even if I wasn't happy to pay, there are plenty of alternative platforms to move to. And even if there weren't, well, I could always write my own.