I don't know how you can keep calling the MVP program a "competition". It is not a competition. It is an award that anyone can work towards and earn.

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>This thread has developed quite well. I have a reason to especcially react to your message, because you mention the two aspects that I wanted to be at the core of the thread.
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>I don't believe that any of us is only doing all this helping just out of altruism.
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>Sure, some (no, most!) are, in our case, really enthousiastic about VFP, and they feel an irrational urge to share what they discovered with those others who share their enthousiasm for the product. For some of us the enthousiasm started in 1985 or so when they saw Foxbase do what dBase did a hundred times slower (yes, I'm one of them). "Hey man, guess what I discovered last night!!"
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>But we're professional enough these days to realize that it's not that smart if you're giving away precious 'discoveries' just like that to 'colleagues', when you just spent hours and hours trying to figure out those things. There must be more selfish reasons for 'helping' others also.
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>Reasons might be esteem, recognition and becoming well-known, and those might give a head start in the economical sense.
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>Those reasons are fine with me. But.... but what we see here today is that the MVP's get additonal information that others don't get and that this alone gives them a potential head start. That's just not fair competition, IMO!