You're beating him with money and not with content.
You know what? I disagree. Eric is a beggar. He tries so hard to sell his books (most of which only have 1 review - I wonder who that might be from), beg for donations and profiteer from advertisement. He's also the one who decided that he's so cheap that he's going to host his forum on a free boards site (which in turn allowed me to advertise there) instead of spending some pocket money on a proper host. If he knew what he's doing, he'd be the one with money. He's trying to make money on his escapades, but he has no idea how to do so.
We, on the other hand, quite literally do not offer any avenues for ourselves to profit from. You can't donate to us (even though
people wanted to!), and our
CafePress store is set to not have any markup (i.e. the prices there are the prices CafePress demands - we have no cut from it at all).
The ad on Eric's site, which I'm paying for out of my own pocket, is setting me back just a couple dollars per day. I'm far from rich, either. I would argue that if you can't afford to occasionally invest $30 into something you care about, you simply don't care enough.
As for content, I guess it depends on what you mean by "content". We're the organisation to actually produce an electronic copy of the first edition of Zetetic Astronomy (available from our
library). We got it because we cared and were willing to put in some effort. It wasn't even that difficult.