I think the main difference between the two sites, other than the obvious subjectmatter difference, is that unix.com is out to make a buck, and we're out to be a community.
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The ad management and SEO optimization gives that away. What's sad is that this greediness of content isolation for the purposes of SEO-driven ad revenue is blot on the UNIX community as a whole. It's a self-serving selfish behavior. As a result I wouldn't contribute one word of content to them.
So having users potentially come here and post content that might otherwise be posted on their site and generate more traffic via search engines (and thus potentially spur more ad revenue and thus make them more money) is, to me, the direct reason they are acting the way they are... any other excuse they give is, IMHO, simply smokescreen.
ps- do you still want to recommend them and set up a link for them from here?