Second, saying that MT users don’t know what TrackBack is is ridiculous — Movable Type is the platform that *invented* TrackBack and our company Six Apart first popularized it. If you want to talk about tech-savvy MT users, you can point at BoingBoing or O’Reilly Radar or ReadWriteWeb or any one of dozens of others. That’s not to mention enormous media properties from the Huffington Post to the Washington Post, which all use MT as well.

And finally, when it comes to commercial support, we wrote the book in many ways. MT was one of the earliest platforms to offer professional support, as well as one of the first to offer enterprise-grade backing for business blogs. The whole point in starting this conversation was to educate people about the platform, and I think if you read what we actually wrote, instead of second-hand spin about the post, you’d be pretty impressed. Again, we’re not interested in a petty shoving match in the blogosphere, we’re focused on makng great blogging tools, and our coders are busy adding exclusive features like Action Streams and OAuth and Fire Eagle support and the best OpenID integration in the business. (Oh yeah, and Six Apart is where OpenID was invented, too.) We’ll let developers on other platforms waste their time on bickering, but we will absolutely spend time showing people the work we’re proud of, too.

Second, saying that MT users don’t know what TrackBack is is ridiculous — Movable Type is the platform that *invented* TrackBack and our company Six Apart first popularized it. If you want to talk about tech-savvy MT users, you can point at BoingBoing or O’Reilly Radar or ReadWriteWeb or any one of dozens of others. That’s not to mention enormous media properties from the Huffington Post to the Washington Post, which all use MT as well.

And finally, when it comes to commercial support, we wrote the book in many ways. MT was one of the earliest platforms to offer professional support, as well as one of the first to offer enterprise-grade backing for business blogs. The whole point in starting this conversation was to educate people about the platform, and I think if you read what we actually wrote, instead of second-hand spin about the post, you’d be pretty impressed. Again, we’re not interested in a petty shoving match in the blogosphere, we’re focused on makng great blogging tools, and our coders are busy adding exclusive features like Action Streams and OAuth and Fire Eagle support and the best OpenID integration in the business. (Oh yeah, and Six Apart is where OpenID was invented, too.) We’ll let developers on other platforms waste their time on bickering, but we will absolutely spend time showing people the work we’re proud of, too.

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