Alex

>>he is still an MVP (and a fine gentleman, which I know personally).<<

I only encountered him (I'm assuming you mean KP?) in newsgroups.
The first time, he and a certain VFP MVP formed a tag-team to scoff and attack suggestions that VFP's inline parsing provides a huge advantage over VB for web development. Neither of them understood it; their ignorance did not stop them doing the flame thing. I suspect that KP got dragged along by the VFP "expert".

The second time was after dotNYET; he seemed a more humble person. Since he had built huge expertise in low-level COM stuff, dotNET must have dealt him a real blow.

Regards

JR