Yes, the FUD is dying out. Only some of our most negative fans still hold the view that magically a general-purpose operating system cannot run a desktop. Once everyone around you is doing that, it’s hard to believe the lies any longer. That goes for organizations, too. They do exchange staff/members and the word gets around. I spread the word a lot at educational conferences and the schools where I planted GNU/Linux have influenced thousands. With Android/Linux taking off, there’s no legs for an argument that GNU/Linux cannot do the same. It got onto millions of netbooks in a few months before ASUS sold out. Now Dell has it in hundreds of stores in Asia. The “technological evangelism” of M$ has failed to eliminate GNU/Linux’s mind-share but they keep trying, hoping to delay the inevitable decline of monopoly.

The migrations are happening and with very few, suspicious exceptions, the word coming back is “What are you waiting for?”.