6 Responses

1. billg

   June 22nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm

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   I’m using a non-commercial EE license for a personal site. I’ve used WP, MT, TxP, and others, but EE seems more in synch with my thought patterns. Yes, it costs money, but so what? Why should our choice of software for “personal projects” be limited to freebies? What’s wrong with buying what I think is the best?

2. David Peralty

   June 22nd, 2007 at 4:43 pm

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   Nothing is wrong with buying what you think is best. I’d just prefer to change something that is close to the best and is free. Just call me cheap…

3. billg

   June 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 pm

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   One specific reason I bought it is the built-in caching function. I could never get wp-cache working and no one at the wp-cache site responded to my queries.

   Questions I’ve posted to the EE forums, on the other hand, have been answered within a few hours, often by EE staff.

   The EE cache, which includes SQL query and DB caching as well as page caching, so far is dead simple to set up and administer.

   To each his own, though.

4. Peter

   June 23rd, 2007 at 6:28 am

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   Most open-source minded people will be underwhelmed. But EE is something like a trendy gadget, the way mac products are. Make it free and they’ll search another product eventually (though they won’t admit that now). It caters to a snobist market. Veerle fits right in.

5. jeepers

   June 26th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

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   um, there is a FREE version, it’s called ‘expression engine core’. I’m not sure about all of you, but so far it’s got everthing I need to run my blog.

6. Firm

   July 18th, 2007 at 5:03 am

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   Questions I’ve posted to the EE forums, on the other hand, have been answered within a few hours, often by EE staff.