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A win for innovation, interoperability & computing; a loss for originality
Apr 5, 2021 Ian Darwin
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Ontario: now a Police State? For a day?

Update "Trial ballon down in flames:" Under fire from every direction, and faced with every major municipal police force stating they would not use the 'random search' provisions, the Premier backed away from this draconian fiat, a day after announcing it. In its justifiable plan to …

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Blog moved to Hugo too

Shortly after moving the main site to a static SSG (Hugo), I also migrated the entire blog. This blog roll has been on several different software packages, so a few entries may not format correctly due to one of the several migrations it’s been through. As always, please let me know if you find …

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A win for innovation, interoperability & computing; a loss for originality

Not one but two long-drawn-out big-stakes lawsuits were in the news this week. First the mostly-good news. Years ago a team led by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems invented a new computer programming language called Java. It was good, and its usage grew, and Sun kept improving it. Later, a startup …

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