IBM beats Microsoft over the head with its own code

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Sep 11, 2007 8:45 AM EDT
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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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Hmmm....wonder if anybody is having second thoughts? dinotrac 3 1,195 Sep 11, 2007 8:33 PM

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