Sam, I understand where you are coming from with most of your points. I'm a capitalist at heart, and have nothing against someone wanting to make money from their labors. Sure, people want everything to be free... except for anything that they make money from themselves. I appreciate that the owners of this site have decided to keep the site free to use, but would not be upset if they made it a pay site. I'd rather pay for the site than have it disappear for lack of funds, after all. However, this part:

All these things he is accused of are underhanded business tactics used by Bill Gates and Intel and tons of other sucessfull individuals and compainies.
I have to disagree with. I think that there is a difference between being ambitious and ruthless, and with being underhanded or even criminal. It may be true that a lot of successful people and companies got where they were by putting aside ethics and morals (and in some cases, the law). But I wouldn't want to use them as an example of who to emulate. That's effectively saying that "crime pays."

I am in support of the decision to remove from the community a guy who was acting the way that Ellay and Keyclone described, particularly if he was threatening to undermine your community in order to build his. I don't think the community needs people who draw boundaries and try to undermine a community and call it "marketing."