This is my contribution to the informal survey started by Six Apart about the ways people are using Movable Type in the real world. It is rare enough to see a company listen to its users so quickly and be wiling to make changes where other companies would just have ignored the outcry and told everyone to just live with it.
So… how are we using MT ?
Not as frequently or as extensively as I would like I am afraid.
We are using 2 blogs with 2 authors (my brother and myself). Each blog is made up of a main blog and a secondary one to keep track of lists of links.
I also customized a couple of templates in the source code itself to replace the default editor by an HTML embedded editor (FCKedit). This is not working a 100% (still getting odd �timeout� messages from MT from time to time on long entries) but it is enough to get the job done.
I would not mind paying for a personal license as long as it covered more than 1 author (I can see that being a recurring theme on blogs shared by multiple members of the same family) and allowed tinkering with the source code.
I really hope this survey will result in changes to the terms of licenses.