Consideration number two would be the advances in the rendering of 3D interfaces using JavaScript, as in the forthcoming Famo.us framework.

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Open source has been used primarily in IT shops and especially on Unix platforms, where a number of necessary components are by tradition open source (things like file systems or graphical user interfaces).

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