Have you ever tried to seriously concentrate on a single task at hand.

* A Single vim/emacs session with a code or text. No Windows, No buffers.
* Or a single webpage open and you are concentrating on that one only.

You will switch only after one is over

Compare this with the multiple buffers open with multiple tabs and multiple applications open, which you constantly switch back and forth. It may not take a genius to figure that the first one is 'more efficient'. This research substantiates that.

I personally favor single tasking with a longer task switching.

This makes sense. Yeah, be whatever the motive, the FSF might thank them as it still gets aligned to what they (FSF) wanted.

Was this decision taken after the urge of FSF or they had it in their plans? I think the lobbying and urging by FSF to a corporate like Google seems somewhat undignified, at least to me. This act seems of higher quality and nature, be whatever its motivations are.

But yeah, I would be curious to know from the Google Insiders as how much of FSF urging help?

He wont get a job at Google, when he tries to apply there few years down.

The previous guy must have been a kernel hacker, thats why.