6/7     Does anyone use (or have familiarity with) WordPress as
        blogging software? What are its dis/advantages compared to
        Movable Type? Thanks.
        \_   It's been a year or two since I did an involved comparison of the
           two so this may be somewhat dated, YMMV, not responsible if this
           advice causes your CPU to catch fire, kills babies, etc...  Last I
           looked at them, WP wasn't quite there yet vs. MT.  This was shortly
           after the genesis of WP (prior to that it was a package called
           Cafelog IIRC).  From what I understand, WP has been making leaps
           and bounds and, at this point, it is likely on par or superior to
           MT.  Older versions of MT were written entirely in Perl.  WP is and
           always has been written in PHP.  Modern MT is a mix of Perl and
           PHP.  As I understand it, this was done as a way to work around the
           fact that, in older versions of MT, you had to manually rebuild
           your pages regularly, which was annoying, to say the least.  IMO,
           the MT plugins community is a little more mature than that of WP.
             These days, the main deciding factor I care about is licensing.
           Although MT is free for personal use, it quickly gets expensive for
           any sort of commercial or contract work.  I think this is because
           SixApart (makers of MT) would prefer that people use TypePad, their
           hosted subscription-based service.  My main beef with MT's
           licensing is that they absolutely forbid you from distributing
           modified versions of the MT source.  So, in essence, if you write
           any plugins, fix any bugs, or develop any enhancements for MT, you
           are at the mercy of SixApart.  Sure you could distribute them
           separately or as patches, but I don't particularly expect bloggers
           to be the sort of users that are willing to deal with tools like
           diff and patch (nor do I think they should have to).  Consequently,
           I am inclined to avoid MT since I have little interest in doing
           what amounts to free development work for SixApart.  WP, on the
           other hand, is licensed under the GPL so you can hack on it to your
           hearts content, though any changes or enhancements you release must
           also be licensed under the GPL.  Feel free to email me if you have
           more specific questions. -dans