MVPs are paid? Where is my money - Issue Resolved
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It is interesting what people think. According to the microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet newsgroup, MVPs are paid by Microsoft to promote their technology. I'm an MVP. This is my third year as an MVP. I haven't seen the first check from Microsoft. Perhaps they were lost in the mail.
Anyone that knows me knows that I don't just sing the party line because someone tells me to. Given the cost of going to events (flights, hotels, missed work time), the MVP award that I have gotten has cost me much more than some free access to MSDN.
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Update: As you can probably imaging, discussion on this has continued. As often happens, a joke Alvin was making was taken out of context. Alvin has appologized for the original statement. Personally, I am not sure that there is much to apologize for. Jokes get taken out of context all the time.