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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Pacheco said there were still public concerns about users with disabilities and total cost of ownership.
Ha, ha, ha. Now where did a Senator pick up phrases like 'total cost of onwership', and they also really confused the use of Open Document as a standard open format (which MS Office could easily use) and open source software. Hmmm. I wonder who could have put ideas like that into their heads...