On May 7th the first round of a three-part fight between Oracle and Google over patent and copyright claims relating to the Java programming languageended in a decision that denied outright victory to either firm.
When Matthew Engel wrote here earlier this month about the impact of American English on British English, he restarted a debate about the changing nature of language which ended in dozens of suggestions from readers of their own loathed Americanisms.
By an accident of colonial history, they were separated from Malaysia, with which they share language and religion, and ended up part of Thailand, with its Thai-speaking, Buddhist majority.
The language of "capacity building" contained in this act is an open-ended term that if logically followed, could eventually mean U.S. troops on the ground in Syria.