Cubic

When the other shoe drops... http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/06/microsoft_mvp_threats/comments/ ...it is going to hurt. A lot. So this guy wrote a pretty popular add-in for Visual Studio .NET called TestDriven.NET. I've actually heard about this add-in prior to the whole mess he has currently got himself into so it is definitely popular. Summary of how it has gone down thus far: 1) Developer creates add-in for VS.NET via COM because a VSIP license is expensive. Nothing in the EULA explicitly prohibits it. 2) People like the add-in and it becomes popular. 3) Microsoft gives him MVP status and then discovers the add-in works for VS.NET Express and asks author to remove support for Express. 4) Author refuses. 5) MVP status is revoked. 6) Author adds support for VS.NET "Orcas" Express. 7) Microsoft legal makes its move. Frankly, VS is Microsoft's intellectual property, not the developer's. However, there are two parties at fault here: 1) Microsoft...