There seems to be lots of mixed opinions about codeproject. One thing that would help in this kind of situation is if someone from codeproject could answer the following questions that I have put together after reading through all the threads on this subject. 1) Is codeproject a community effort or is it a company? 2) If its a company, who owns it? 3) what is Dundas's role in codeproject? Tom feels that they own it? Please clarify on this. If the answer to the above questions reflects something like codeproject is a community site and that the users/authors have a say in running codeproject ,please answer the rest. Otherwise its clear that Chris is running a business and he can do anything he wants and I am not against that. He is proving a wonderful service and if he is making money I dont see anything wrong with that. 4) How much does it cost to maintain a site that has 5000 users online all the time. Since a lot of you guys do this for a living , can you give an estimate of what it costs in terms of bandwidth? If CP is short of funds , then they could even consider charging more for banner ads. I am pretty sure the companies would pay more. 5) What kind of work is being shared with the community? Did chris create a site all by himself? or did others help? I am pretty sure that we can find volunteers to do a lot of daily maintenance work. 6) If others had helped earlier in building the site, why is he refusing help from people like Tom, Daniel and others. 7) I just read in a thread where chris talks about when Zafir Anjam locked out the volunteers, isnt the same thing happening in CP? Volunteers being locked out? Is CP going to be sold in the near future and you dont want people to claim that they helped build this site?. Thanks for reading. PS: I am not against codeproject and think its the best site in the world.