Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.

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Doing away with the 'independence' platform will further alienate a lot of traditional DPP supporters.

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His own party, the Democratic Progressive Party, is expunging the explicit pro-independence plank from its platform.

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Last year, Cox got involved in politics himself when he stood on a platform at the launch of Yes Scotland, which is campaigning for independence.

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The DPP platform, reaffirmed last week, openly endorses a referendum leading to formal independence for the island.

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