Don't you think that this is a little naive ? CodeGuru has always had adverts on it's pages - how do you think Zafir managed to pay for hosting the site in the first place ?

Most authors publish their work on a site to help other people and to get recognition - this in turn prompts other people to post code / articles and in the end, everyone wins. The CodeGuru site has proved invaluable to me in the past, and I don't really think that much has changed (apart from the horrible blue wavy line). There aren't really that many more adverts (they're just slower to load) and according to the big cheese at EarthWeb, the 'copyright issue' is just the same as it always was (just badly written).

If more people who posted to this discussion just sat back and thought for a minute and examined the facts (rather than over-reacting to the visual changes and the crappy copyright notice), then I think things would soon get back to a normal state.


Just my 2 cents