The Obama campaign has a position statement on technology and innovation which contains the intriguing promise to make “government data available online in universally accessible formats.” It sounds like he is referring to a format such as ODF that can be read by open-source programs like Open Office. If this were true, it would put some more momentum into the open source movement, and chip away at the monopoly enjoyed by MicroSoft, and despised by the rest of us. Score one for the Obama campaign!

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