Adobe on Monday said it is joining the Linux Foundation and foreshadowed an “alpha-quality” release of AIR for Linux, though the company stopped short of publishing source code for the software. The ballots for voting on whether Microsoft’s Open Office XML spec should become an international standard closed amid a tight race.Sophos warns of money-grabbing malware that attacks Macs by claiming false privacy problems in an effort to install itself, but the security vendor tells users not to panic. With Vista breached, Linux remains unbeaten in a hacking contest that saw MAC OS X fall first, followed by a Windows Vista machine.And WSO2 boosts Spring developers with Web services. Software Development