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Dokter’s Weekly Report #26

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This is the very slim Dokter’s Weekly Report I am able to file for this week. Been too busy with other obligations. So busy, while I was finishing it, I actually considered to put it on hiatus for a bit.

Then I thought, maybe I should just stick to collecting links, sans the comments and this intro.

While writing this last paragraph, I’ll see how I go next week. If I still feel pressed for time, next weeks Dokter’s Weekly Report will be the last report before the hiatus of it.

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The Google Glass feature no one is talking about – Read it
I am not amazed any more that Google does not receive any criticism, because it seems to be too favoured by the Kool-Aid drinking zealots. However, I am now saddened and worried by the lack of criticism. If Apple or Microsoft were doing these things, they would be in court for anti-trust activity and lambasted for their continues poorly respect for privacy. Unfortunately, Google managed to make people blindly believe their motto, Don’t Be Evil.

F.U.D. — Mysterious Trousers – Read it
Even as a freelance journalist I have found myself defending that I work from home. Because it is not like a newspaper has some kind of spare desk for freelancers, nor is it always possible for me to travel to a different state, or even a different country, to get my work done. Nor do I have to make that long haul to get my job done.

50 blogs by journalists, for journalists – Read it
A list I intend to go through, eventually, when time allows it.

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Stop drinking the Google Kool-Aid

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I remember, back in the days, when Microsoft was accused of limiting innovation due to their monopoly.

When they were finally taken to court for possibly breaching anti-trust laws it was a sigh of relief heard around the world from the tech community. Hope that their monopoly would end, letting other tech companies have a fair go too.

The hatred for Microsoft is still alive today, and they are still pissing off EU.

There is however another company that seems to receive no criticism at all, even though their behaviour is strangely similar to Microsoft before they learnt their lesson.

Why is Google able to do the same thing as Microsoft, without the criticism? If Google is ever criticised you are sure to see their devoted zealots defend them. Yet it is tempting to speculate that some of these cultists are the same people who hated Microsoft with a passion, and still do.

I’ve seen the contradictory behaviour for myself. Devoted Linux users hating on Apple and Microsoft, but praising Google for their near world dominance.

How is it that we can accept a monopoly from one company, but not from another?

If we demand that innovation should not be held back because of what we accuse Microsoft and Apple for, then the same criticism should and must be applied to Google.