Roedy said:
There are ads on my site. They barely pay the ISP bills. They don't
cover my own Internet access. They don't cover any of my time. I find
it odd than nominally capitalist people are so insistent that
everything be given them free and ad-free. It is not enough that
people donate their time, you want them to donate the out of pocket
expenses as well.
I hardly call copying entries from
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/Glossary.html verbatim
and adding a billion adverts a laudable case of "donating their time"!
They're perfectly free to do so (copyright laws notwithstanding), but
it's just a lower quality source of the same info.
I'm not against people using ads. But the site in question seems amock
with them, and given the information is just copied verbatim from Sun
FAQs and god knows where else, the site gives the impression of being
created quickly with the prime intention of making money. Making money
is not bad. But I reserve the right to point out the site is just a rip
of other sources of info and there are better source of info out there.
Your site, on the other hand, is very well written, extensive, and has
lots of original information/content, and is well worth visiting, ads or
no ads. I am not complaining against ads in general.