>>I pretty much know most of the story. It doesn't paint either party in a good light, but I also consider it to be nearly trivial to this discussion.
All I know is what was said by party A which was that Party B proposed and was granted a MVP award in exchange for promoting NET to VFPers. I agree that special/secret knowledge would be irrelevant to the "justice being seen to be done" point I made earlier.
"... 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
