I do believe Android/Google are pushing Linux forward by introducing a managed code scenario where everything is managed. They appear to have beaten MS to the punch and hopefully this will work its way into the Linux community rather than the trojan horse that is Mono.
However I'm 50/50 on whether Google is pushing Linux any more mainstream than anyone else is. Maybe just the Google name on the OS helps push it into the light for people that otherwise wouldn't know anything about Linux.
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