Actually, now that he puts it that way, Google's position looks much less hypocritical. Even if Google were to completely close the source forever, and never r

Actually, now that he puts it that way, Google's position looks much less hypocritical. Even if Google were to completely close the source forever, and never release the new updates, they could quite consistently claim "We created Android to shake up the phone market. You now have two men. Andy Rubin, and Steve Jobs. You have two carriers, Verizon or AT&T". More charitably, they're still only talking about early access. Presumably, eventually the Honeycomb sources will be released. Which would further allow them to claim that android is 'open'.