Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it and am glad that Six Apart is responding to the concerns users are expressing with the 3.0 license terms. I'd like to add a few concerns that I don't think are addressed which I hope that the company will address and I'd like to verify that I am correct about the pricing that I would need to pay to upgrade to 3.0 without losing existing capabilities. The former: The license terms restrictions on authors are absolutely unfriendly to group blogs. In addition to sites that I participate in such as BlogCritics.org, this affects two group blogs I run. One is a group blog for a comics mailing list. The other is a group blog for a role-playing game. These account for less than 5% of our blog use and traffic, and yet would add $100s to our licensing costs. The statement that "[your] best explanation for the tiering is that we feel a personal user who sets up weblogs for 50 of his friends should pay more for a license than one who uses only one weblog for himself" will directly affect me and, even if one were to postulate that your feeling was valid, your implementation seems to be different than your statement. Consider that if I set up 50 weblogs for 50 friends, I will need 90 add-on license packs, the cost would be $900 in addition to the base $100 license. That's not just steep, it's an effective barrier to purchase. If what you meant was "we don't want any money from people who want to set up weblogs for 50 of their friends, so we priced that possibility out of liklihood", then OK, but more doesn't have to mean "a cool grand". What I really think is that you should cut out this nonsense and find some price point at which an unlimited license is available, but there may be other solutions, such as a limit based on the author/weblog count, whichever is lower. Single, multi-blog sites like Blogcritics don't get boned, sites like ours would pay for more than one blog but not the great number of authors. Single authors with lots of blogs wouldn't be punished either. Not having an unlimited license will prevent people from trying innovative ideas of how to use a blog with your tool. It is my sincere hope that Six Apart addresses these licensing concerns and does so quickly. I am a long-timer user and have not felt the need to consider my options prior to this licensing issue. I want features from MT 3.0 (comment registration and a backend performance inprovement mostly), but not at any cost. The latter: While I am in no way sure I can afford to upgrade, I do want to verify that I know what it would cost me to do so. I have 39 users and 13 blogs. So, I'm calculating $069.95 introductory price + $340.00 add-on users (39-5) * $10 each + $080.00 add-on blogs (13-5) * $10 each --------------------------- $489.95 price - $105.00 previous license key credit --------------------------- $384.95 Please verify that I have correctly determined the price. To be honest, this price is too high for us to consider this upgrade. The server that we're running MT on cost us $225 on eBay. We can't afford to pay twice that to stay with MT with limits. If we have to move, our users aren't likely to switch to TypePad. We've polled them on what they want. They told us "we'll do what you suggest". Hey, they're the ones who took our advice on blogging software in the first place and whom we've been supporting since we agreed to help our friends. So, we'd like a lower price for an unlimited license.