Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Nov 2005 19:33 UTC, submitted by Mark Brunelli
Open standards and open source software got political on Monday when Linda Hamel, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Information Technology Department, suggested that groups that oppose the OpenDocument file format standard might be influenced by Microsoft. Hamel was testifying before the Senate's committee on Post Audit and Oversight at a hearing regarding the state's switch to the OpenDocument file format. 
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2005-10-02
influenced in the sense that they're using the same arguments as Microsoft. Like "ODF means Microsoft can't deliver any solutions", "All applications supporting ODF is based on OpenOffice.org", "GPL is evil", "Open standards only works with open source, there open standards are evil" etc.