But I think we're beyond the point that any of us could have been particularly effective.That's probably what matters now.
FWIW, I've never said MVPs are to blame for what happened: actually I've said more than once that I'm amazed that VFP lasted so long when it must have been a thorn in the side for MS trying to promote VB and then NET. I do think that some of your peers have become somewhat accustomed to being special and have become a little too free with the thunderbolts from Olympus directed at mere users, but not you- you've always been a states(wo)man exhibiting excellence with humility, a rare combination. Yes that is a compliment. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
