In collaboration with Microsoft, TurnKey Linux to relaunch as TurnKey Windows

Posted by liraz on Apr 1, 2009 10:22 AM EDT
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SEOUL Apr 1, 2009: At the Federated Assembly of Korean Engineers, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a collaboration agreement with the open source project formerly known as TurnKey Linux

In a surprise move that will no doubt raise many eyebrows in the open source community, the project formerly known as TurnKey Linux has announced today it was relaunching as TurnKey Windows, following a collaboration agreement with Microsoft to develop a new generation of software appliances based on the software giant's highly anticipated Windows 7 operating system. At this time details of the financial terms between Microsoft and the former open source project remain undisclosed. "Too often open source projects ask monopolistic proprietary vendors to adapt and embrace open source ideals. Today we are adapting our ideals to a very generous monopolistic proprietary vendor" said Alon Swartz, co-founder and CEO of TurnKey Windows.

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Nice April Fools joke... softwarejanitor 0 718 Apr 1, 2009 12:58 PM

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