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As Steve Jobs and Paul Otellini walked toward each other with arms outstretched, the nearly 4,000 developers in attendance clapped at the spectacle unfolding Monday morning in the US. The chief executive officers of Apple Computer and Intel were doing the heretofore unthinkable onstage in San Francisco and becoming allies right before their eyes.
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Smarting from criticism from open-source programmers, Intel has committed to release Linux versions of essential supporting software at about the same time it releases Windows versions.
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