IBM Beats Microsoft Over the Head With Its Own Code

"IBM added a delicious twist on its new commitment to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was originally derived in part from a Microsoft-developed technology.

"IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)--compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA) as a starting point..."

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