[kybernetyk]

> His approach will hopefully force developers to focus on useful utility rather than trivial novelty with the goal of extracting money from the first waves of users.

Please explain to me how "you are not allowed to make money" will force me to create anything of real value to the end user?

In the best case you would end up with software that is the state of the linux desktop.

[nmcfarl]

And that's a really optimistic best case scenario. When developing Linux software you feel like you're giving something back to the community - here you are just working for Google for free.