I don't know whether they're lying or not. I do know that Google has shown they can't be trusted to follow through on their promises of "openness" in the past.

I don't know whether they're lying or not. I do know that Google has shown they can't be trusted to follow through on their promises of "openness" in the past. I know that the most recent public release of Android (Honeycomb, since ICS isn't out yet) was a closed-source product. I know that they did that for a reason -- controlling which devices end-users can run the software on -- that spits in the face of Freedom Zero. I know that Google's development process is the same one Apple has been flamed to a crisp for in the past (adopt an open-source codebase, do all your development in secret, and maybe chuck a tarball over the fence every so often). I know that my attitude on Google and "open" nowadays is "I'll believe it when I see it". I know that there's an awful lot of rationalization going on in the minds of people who trusted Google and are now learning that may not have been such a smart idea...