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Movable Type, the most popular installable platform written in perl has decided to go open source. Wordpress stole most of the popularity and fame because it is open sourced and has a huge community behind it. Movable Type has also decided to enjoy the benifits of open sourced software and announced the open source project along with the launch of the MT 4 Beta.

Movable Type Open Source, or MTOS, is the open source project that will consist of a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0, to be released in Q3 2007, and resources for the already large community of Movable Type developers, hosted at www.movabletype.org/opensource. Also the website states that they wouldn’t be abandoning the commericial licensed version of the software.

It is good to see a solid blogging platform come out into the public with the source code. You can download the beta version of MT4 to try the new features. The website says that it is easy to install and get started, which was a problem with the previous versions.