It will look like Android vs HTC. Does HTC care about being open? No, they just point fingers to Android and say "hey! we use that open stuff! we're open! buy our devices!" then laugh at you if you ask for the source of the crap they put on top the Android stack on their devices, and they will kick you if you ask where to file nasty hardware bugs. "Talking with the actual engineers behind the device? Madness! This it HTC!" Haven't you already heard that sentence here? Some statements I've been reading lately have already felt to me like "hey! we use that open meego stuff! the N900+1 will be open!" "what about the notepad (or dial, or messages, or ...) application?" "closed! differentiation! but meego is open so go grab their generic Qt mail reader application that won't even integrate with the system theme because virtually no shipped device uses it. it's open! see -- here's the meego bugzilla, here's its repository, here's ..."