>I would not look a gift-horse in the mouth. It seems to me that that anybody who is willing to volunteer their time - regardless of whether they are an MVP or not - those offers should be embraced and taken advantage of.
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>It seems rediculous to limit this sort of work to just MVP's.
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>Seems to me this presents a great way for others - who are not MVP's - to make a valuable contribution to the community.
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>I understand that some sort of an agreement would have to exist upon taking delivery of the toolkit - but being an MVP as a prerequisite is unreasonable.

We worked on this project for months, and it involved a great deal of legal work as well. There is a formal contract, use of special tools that we only use internally at Microsoft that is not avaialble to the public, etc. The project is a great deal of work and effort for many people, and the only benefit for it to exist is where there is an existing customer base who will consider obtaining VFP 8.0 English when they had a previous version in another language knowing they can download the localized DLL. The project also uses data strings and such that Microsoft used previously. But I do plan to review the results of the German, Spanish, and French projects early next year and see what the result was, then determine if we should work to localize any other versions, if at all.