the end of mt?

movabletype 3.0 is out and they are going to charge almost U$ 70 for the personal edition. you can still get a limited (ie. one author and 3 blogs) version for free, but i have a dull feeling. what worries me is that “comment registration” service called typekey. is it yet another way to track people who comment in various blogs and spy on them? does it block comment spam efficiently? i do not know. now that i am really happy with mt-blacklist and stuff i am not going to upgrade to 3.0 or even pay for it, well, at least not U$ 70. that is rather steep, U$ 25 would be fine for a personal edition. i am going to stick with the current version 2.661. bad SixApart, no donut for you.