Reaching out to hardware companies

[J]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 13:31, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8802144045.html
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I'd be curious to know how well that was received and how much it
actually helped (since that announcement was dated 2007).

How many hardware vendors took them up on the offer (that didn't
already have Linux development projects underway)?