How do we use MT? We're a non-profit weblog that covers international affairs. Naturally, we've recruited a bunch of international residents to act as correspondents and give us regular briefings from places as far away as Korea, China, Iran, etc.

Our list of authors currently stands at about 25 - partly because our roster does change, but also because people leave. We don't want to delete authors and therefore leave all their past posts "authorless" in the system. That's not ethical, because those materials belong to them.

Our roster will probably be about 35 in a year's time. We've enjoyed a certain amount of success, eith nominations for international journalism awards and several successes in conjunction with charities like Spirit of America, Operation Give, etc.

That said, Winds of Change.NET is run on a shoestring because it has to be. It's all private funds, and I don't have a lot to spend on this. The new 3.0 licensing provisions would almost certainly force us to abandon Movable Type - and flagship non-profit successes like The Command Post (perused regularly by CNN staffers during the recent Iraq war because of their incredibly timely coverage) would be right behind. I do think the proposed licensing scheme is a mistake for non-profit blogs, and could remove MT from its current role as the standard choice for individual blogers.

I don't mind paying USD$ 69.95, but beyond that we run into problems and I'd be very reluctant to adopt a system that would limit my team's expansion so sharply. That's the lifeblood of my blog, and the only way to run it without it consuming all of my time.

Note that I've dated this post so it doesn't show up on our present blog and disrupt our other coverage - so if it seems precognitive, that's why.