This tidbit came from the OpenOffice.org newsletter:
Partners Weigh In On Firefox, IE Faceoff
“”It’s much more than a browser share war. It’s a war for
open standards, and the forces opposing Microsoft are much
heavier than a company,” said Sam Hiser, a consultant and
developer for OpenOffice, an open-source competitor to
Microsoft Office. “For Microsoft it is about preserving
their nefarious capability of dictating Web page design
habits, which are dependent on Microsoft’s browser.
Firefox represents a challenge to such a racket.” “