The author touts the platform openness, but I'm not sure that we're going to see much come of it. Because hardware vendors are so selective about their platform

The author touts the platform openness, but I'm not sure that we're going to see much come of it. Because hardware vendors are so selective about their platforms, it's entirely possible that we'll be obstructed from recompiling the OS for the phones. Another open source advantage is the ease of upgrading, or rolling improved (sub) sets of code onto computers. It's not unusual in the Windows Mobile world to get a single upgrade to your platform, but I await HTC's behavior with regard to upgrades, especially beyond the first one, as products age. If Google is holding anything back, or the hacking experience on the individual devices is substandard, the community contributions will look less like Linux, and more like Apple's Darwin project: there may well be material contributions, but it will pale in comparison to its true potential.