As for Peter O’Kelly, he was part of the brainwash sessions in Redmond — sessions that were breeding brainwashed journalists who later attacked IBM and defended Microsoft in the intl’ press, having received a free trip (plus all expenses covered) across the globe.

Virtually ALL OOXML support is PAID FOR. That cannot be stressed strongly enough.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/30/favours-for-ooxml-support/
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/12/28/format-seige-money-dvd/

http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2008/02/11/open-xml-at-the-microsoft-office-developer-conference-2008.aspx

Someone who goes by the name “Peter O’Kelly (Burton Group Research Director)”, the so-called independent group (who simply repeated Microsoft propaganda in a recent study that claims among other things that ODF is simplistic). Ah!

We also have Wouter Van Vugt. But this should be no surprise either.

Whatever money buys…