David

>>good reasons to keep private the details of how things work behind the scenes. That's just good business sense, and I don't have any problem with the concept at all.<<

This is of course a truism. All successful businesspeople understand the principle.

But what does becoming a MVP have to do with business secrets? If you are saying that "assisting your fellows publicly to become a MVP" automatically creates entitlement to commercially advantageous foreknowledge and other secret information, then you are describing "elitism" just as surely as I did but using different words.

Elitism is of course fine unless its beneficiaries shroud it in secrecy, in which case one has a duty to challenge, IMHO. Only those whose position will not stand up to scrutiny need to fear that.

Regards

JR