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> > > Here are the lines from the MVP home page that I believe have already posted before:
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> > > Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.
> > > https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx
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> > > Eric den Doop
> > > www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts
> >
> > Maybe so, but then why is it that MVP's are always related to a certain technology and not as-is?
> > How come that, looking at the MVP awardees list I see all awarded persons listed under a certain technology? Doesn't that tie the award to a technology? Maybe I still understand wrong and maybe the information, given in, let's say, a VISIO related community is of the same value for a person who seeks C# information. In al honesty I ask, am I missing something here?
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> What's your point? What you are missing here is the true definition of the MVP Award. Yes, it is tied to a certain technology, but the 'rules' do not say anything about an MVP being required to "take his shirt off and fight for the existence of the product they stand for.".
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> >
> > To be perfectly clear, I do NOT doubt that you are dedicated to VFP. Otherwise this very site (to name just one example) would simply not exist. Just to refresh your memory, I am just as dedicated both towards the site as well as VFP.
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> You don't have to refresh my memory. I have never stated that you are not dedicated. You, on the other hand, questioned my dedication only a few posts ago (http://www.foxite.com/archives/0000125693.htm)
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> > Remember the time the site was moving from Texas to the Netherlands?
> > I do recall that the server has been runing a while from my home till late 2002, on a server I bought. My sole motivation was because at that time you were about to give up on foxite, a site that was valuable for many persons at that time already.
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> I don't see how this relates to the discussion about my not needing VFP10?
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> Eric den Doop
> www.foxite.com - The Home Of The Visual FoxPro Experts

At least this thread is proof of passion in the VFP community!

Cheers,
Jamie