TrackBacks are a way for blogs to notify one another. When person A posts a blog entry referencing a blog entry of person B, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B. Usually TrackBacks appear, sometimes along with comments, in the referenced blog. TrackBacks first appeared in Moveable Type, a popular blogging system.
Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition was just launched. The licensing terms for this release are less generous than previous versions of MT. A lot of MT users are complaining about this on their own blogs. Ironically, as PJ Tolland points out, many of their complaints about the new licensing terms end up appearing as TrackBacks on the same page that describes the new licensing terms. Ouch. Imagine if all product announcements and advertising included this sort of counterpoint view.
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