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As, I said form my previously deleted post :-O . I don't think it needs more clarifications that this is you objective Chris. You can just take my comments, as concerns, more then criticism, in order to 'watch your step' with this new initiative.

Wow. Just a single '1' score, after so many sensitive discussions :). Funny is that, I was not even sarcastic in my reply, I really found Shog's reply confusing, so just wanted to make a joke on that particular message :).

"but CP changes all the time". No it never does, at least its purpose never changes. The specificity of this change however, is that it has a high chance to change the purpose of CP. And in the worst case, the job web-site might take of so much that CP ends up as an employment agency :). Anyway, I think my English is good enough for a non English speaker, and I am again too tired to answer more questions. So, I am going to sleep :). Hope I was clear, else, you can consider anything about my reasonings in whatsoever manner. I tried to be clear enough, and my goal was not to criticize and say something bad about CP, rather to just figure out how 'right' -- towards developers -- and how 'good' -- towards themselves -- was it (in the long term) for them to do what they did. good night :)

Sorry now finally, I got what you meant. "a concrete line of reasoning". 1. More or less concrete answer was my answer to C.Kaiser (after led mikes post). 2. Answer to Chris Maunder. 3. Btw. "ethics" is a very concrete notion I think. And I don't think It is vague, to ask whether something is ethical or not, especually, by more or less argumenting why I consider it unethical.

I think (hope) English is not your native language either ;).

"The only way it will work, though, is if we can have it pay for itself". Again, my concern was for CP not to start earning high profits by 'using' its 'free' community. If the purpose of the charging policy for the vacancies, is solely to cover its own running costs, then all my comments can be dismissed. Just curious what happens, if CP suddenly starts making more money out of it then intended for running this service :-\ .

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Well, that makes CP's intention to create a job-web site even more massive. According to my insights, I had considered 250 relatively a high charge for a job vacancy. Maybe this is not an answer to you, just I am tired from answering so many posts :) But, just imagine Linus, speculating with the freeware developers of Linux, by creating job-sites (in the worst case, embedded into linux web-sites) targeted to such audience using his 'channels', and starting to make money out of the employers. Again we would get back to the same ethical problem. CP had collected this community, from different purposes, and suddently, it starts earning "lots" of money "using" them :). In the end you can say, it is a win-win situation (omitting the ethical side, which clearly exists). But, still this can affect CP in a bad way, in the long term [see my reply to Chris Kaiser -- made after the post of "led mike"].

Well, come on. let's dont get too so many details. I think you got my point, else I can't explain it more that that :).

CP is a free web-site hosting several thousands of articles, for "helping" programming community -- that is its sole purpose. By embedding a "paid massive" job web-site inside it, its purpose is being changed. Changing the purpose of CP might affect the enthusiasm of people who make controbutions to it. My only question was to raise discussions on how ethical it is to do what CP did. I think most of the CPians took it personally.

"If Chris, et.al. were creating the jobs board specifically for profit, I might consider it to be borderline conflict-of-interest". I think your reply was the most adequate, and actually I am still not convinvced that this is done not solely for the profit; I am sure, you are'nt either :).

"Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you" Btw. an advice to change it to smth. like (or smth different and more specific): "Please read this if you did not find my answer helpful enough." Else, I thought it was a sarcastic signature, highlighting the fact that someone was not 'smart' enough to understand your post. Never read your article, so sorry if its content makes my remark "unapplicable".

No, it effects the "image" one has about the author of the article. i.e. what is the idea about a hero who gets 1000 dollars for saving someone by risking his life, and the person who does the same just for free -- according to the contents, a very primitive example :), but it fits in the context.

"Why - so it's of less benefit to us ?" No. "It's a seperate site. Does the growth of the java site make CP look less focused on Windows ?" Check my first post. I did not know that was a seperate web-site. That changes picture a bit. "some revenue stream is needed to make that possible." Well, the way it has been started out, it does not seem that its idea is to bring "some" profits; and most importantly, it has a strong perspective to become one of the most massive job sites around, but then again comes the same ethical question -- which becomes "somewhat" justified if the web-site is moved to a seperate web-site.

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"If CP provides a free service, why is it wrong for them to also provide paid services, so long as they don't impinge on or change the offering to people who are using the site for free ? It's actually great for us - I have won tons of work through my CP articles, imagine how much more so I can point to my CP articles as part of my proof of experience, when the job is listed on CP ?" True, but as I said, CP should try to keep the job site relatively limited in terms of available vacancies. If this web-site becomes very massive, it will make CP look more like an employment agency; again, of course free job site is OK, but the ethical questions raises, when one sees 300$ as a charge for a single job vanancy advertisement within a free software developer community's web-site.

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"Nothing in this world is free. It takes either time, money or a combination of both. Chris et all have put in both a built an outstanding community for us developers here on the web that I don't think anyone has ever gotten close to in terms of breath, depth, usability, and utility. So, while you could make an argument that this site is about and driven by the community, this community simply wouldn't exist without the site. In my opinion codeproject is unique." That was not necessary :). "Again, so what? Why does it even matter about the author's intent if the article is excellent and has helped or educated someone?" Well, it does matter, whether you know that someone educates others (as you say) just for fun, or whether he does it for some 'profits'. -- Again, my that argument, is ad-hoc, and not something one should raise so much discussions about. I will remove it. Since, as I elaborated later on, it is being done already, that some people use their articles as references in their CV's and that is totally OK. :).

Ok Michael, let's not compete in terms of the number of our contributions, since that also does not mean that you are a bigger fan of CP than I am :).

I don't think you are a bigger fan of CP than I am. But, I mean that maintaining a (relatively expensive) massive job site, within a free software developer's community, could harm the community itself (in the long term).

No, I mean that he thought I had got it backwards, but that was not the case. That's what I meant. :).