Microsoft makes another linux friend: Turbolinux
eWeek | at | by Mike
On July 10, Microsoft announced that Asian Linux distributor Turbolinux is the latest Linux company to join its Ecma Open XML-Open Document Format Translator Project.
Unlike the earlier Microsoft/Linux partnershipsNovell, Xandros and Linspirethere's no patent agreement or any other technical partnerships. This project seeks to create tools to build a "technical bridge" between Microsoft's Open XML Formats and ODF.
This is not Turbolinux's first partnership with Microsoft. In 2004, Turbolinux made a deal with Microsoft to enable its desktop line, starting with Turbolinux 10 F, to ship a media player that's could legally play movies and music encoded in Microsoft's proprietary WMF.