>I don't approve of what's been done, but IMO MVP is not about how they act, but what they know.

IIRC, it's about "contribution to the community" or something of the kind. One could argue that MA&AK have contributed a lot by writing for Fox magazines - OTOH, it could be countered by them being paid for it (ah, the horrors of for-profit places), while they are absent from UT magazine where authors are not paid.

So, just like any other situation where a programmer's contribution is put on scale, there are so many ways to measure it, and so many different results you may get, depending on the yardstick used.