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Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open source drivers for Linux.
Early results in a study that aims to track open source installations in business has seen Ubuntu and Firefox race to the top of the charts.
Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced that it is joining the Linux Foundation.
Open source developers and users have always been a sceptical group, but their opinions can shift for example, their loathing of Sun Microsystems diminished as Sun stopped attacking Linux and started moving towards open source software.
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