[c0achmcguirk]

I remember the battle between Jamie Cansdale and Microsoft regarding Jamie's MVP status [1]. The TL;DR was that Jamie developed TestDriven.NET as an add-on to Visual Studio. He released it for the pay versions and the free version: Visual Studio Express. Microsoft wanted him to make it unavailable for Express and decided to kick him out of the MVP program because they didn't want nice features in the free version of Visual Studio. ;)

[1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/TestDriven-Express-Emails

[otis_inf]

They also kicked out Karl Peterson, who designed the first MVP logo (the diamond with the large MVP inside it) and wrote about 3000+ reply posts a year in various visual basic groups. The reason? He was a VB6 MVP and very vocal against VB.NET. Yes, you can't have the spear head of a community you just kicked in the nuts with a 'VB.NET' in the program that is designed to promote that successor tech, now can we...