Open still means something
For those of us running custom roms I don't think the fact that the core of android is open source has lost it's meaning. I own a I7500, Samsungs first android device, which they dropped support for at 1.6(a shoddy implementation of 1.6 at that), yet thanks to drakaz and others I'm running a decent(and getting better by the day http://code.google.com/p/gaosp/) 2.2. Would this have been possible with a closed source OS? I don't think it would have been and even if it had would have been under constant threat of closure, GAOSP is hosted on google code. As for all this talk of fragmentation it's pure FUD, it's a credit to the andoird team just how little work a developer has to do to support all these devices.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
