>Well.. If this is only a conspiracy theory.. Please, excuse me.. But, this is how I've been seen the history down here..

Hi Claudio. You are welcome to believe what you want based on false assumption and no facts. I will explain the truth and facts for you and others to be clear on the MVP award system. In the 1990s, I was a VFP MVP for many years. Over the past 3.5 years, I've been responsible for selecting the final VFP MVP list while the entire VFP team reviews that list before it is complete so that it has team approval based on technical and support contributions to the VFP community.

We select people in the MVP program who are the best contributors to answering technical questions online, creating whitepapers and books used by the mass community for learning, and those who speak at the larger events. Some are pure technical online, some are more influential from a communication point of view. But marketing has nothing to do with the MVP award and MVPs are never asked or told what to say or not say. The MVP award is an award of contributions made in the prior 12 months. While some MVPs make money related to their community related efforts, many MVPs dedicate their own person time to help others simply becaues they enjoy helping others and it often makes them better developers by doing so in the process. While an MVP is open to criticism individually, there is really no basis for generalization towards MVPs other than to thank them for their efforts in helping others with the developer tools we use.

For a high level description of the MVP award goals direct, refer to http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpexecsum.