Take it up with Rubin. He seems to have had a different understanding. And he was the one negotiating with carriers for a long time. And while I wasn't "in the

Take it up with Rubin. He seems to have had a different understanding. And he was the one negotiating with carriers for a long time. And while I wasn't "in the room", Rubin said it himself in multiple interviews: he wanted to make an open source OS, not with access to source in order to appeal to exactly what the carriers wanted. In fact every time Rubin talked about this he referred to Android as it was since its phone OS inception as open. It's always "his idea to create an open source OS for phones". I'll just assume that one of you is embellishing his story. And in all honesty it could be either way, founder stories tend to get beautified over time.