The Times' impulse to use an alternative platform was laudable.
After the government shut down ERT, The Press Project ran the ERT signal on an alternative platform.
We encourage our readers to join in this effort to create an alternative platform in which presidential candidates give detailed answers to questions posed directly by the public.
At her lofty peak, Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council and other metropolitan authorities around England partly because they gave her Labour opponents an alternative platform.
Second, Office exposes APIs and, like the browser before Microsoft's illegal conduct, has significant potential to become an alternative platform that could erode the applications barrier to entry.
"They need an alternative platform that is not based on the division between religious and civil — a clear alternative in their socioeconomic policies that affect people's daily lives".
Third, because Android (Google's mobile operating system) can run on devices from different manufacturers, it has emerged as an alternative platform.
The most convincing aspect of that alternative "platform" seemingly touted by people in the news with meat on their bones is the rejection of an equivalence between body and self.
Microsoft's primary goal was to prevent Netscape's browser from serving as an alternative platform from which computer users could run word processors and other applications software, and thereby eviscerate the market power of Windows.
On the heels of the now ubiquitous high-end luxury sneaker, the new Swedish brand Eytys offers a refreshingly low-key alternative: platform plimsolls that channel '90s Venice Beach skater shoes.
Cloud Computing offers an alternative platform for executing HPC application.
