MT as open source. KTHXBYE

And speaking of princesses,

At one time, Movable Type was the princess to Blogger’s Queen, a potential successor to the kingdom of Blog, Blog Away. Ben and Mena Trott were feted and fawned over. They were even invited to contribute to the book on weblogging that O’Reilly published, and to which I contributed.

via burningbird, who points to the news that MT is going 4.0 GPL, as detailed at ReadWrite, who correctly points out

Since 2004/05, many bloggers have migrated to the open source Wordpress – and perhaps of more concern, a lot of third party developers transferred their efforts from MT to Wordpress.

Personally, I was tired of the spam, the despairing emails from the hosting co., and the clunkiness of that old MT. Rather than a princess, it looked like and old dowager, left alone and forgotten, while its heirs played at being Shreck in LJ and Typepad.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the dashing Wordpress, although not a darling and full of clunkiness, is hackeable. As the peopole form MAKE say,

Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.

And I prefer

Screws better than Glues.

But let’s not talk about Glues that way.