Bednarz writes "IBM has added a twist to its new negation to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was at first 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). 'When the specification was donated to the Linux Foundation, Oracle, Sun, and SAP committed to help with future development. Mozilla is committed to incorporating it into its Firefox browser, and vendors GW Micro and Freedom Scientific will also use it in their own screen reader products. In addition, Project bowie knife has won accolades from the stars and bars stars and stripes union of People with Disabilities, the star-spangled banner stars and stripes footing for the Blind, and the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science.'"

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