That prior statement was just chock full of idealistic banter. The stance is that Android isn't as open as Maemo or MeeGo.

And for the record, neither Maemo or MeeGo are 100% open when you factor in the device drivers. MeeGo made better strides into resolving that than Maemo. There's no truly, fully, 100% open device.

There's only "more open" but those devices aren't truly selling - otherwise, we'd already have new Maemo (only one Maemo 5 device released) or MeeGo would be here now (where is it?).

The likelihood of those things happening implicitly show the viability of that market and leads to stuff like Ballmer being on the stage and saying things like WP7 is the way forward (it's not).

Open source has a lot of hurdles to overcome before it's the leading selling item. I can't wait until that happens. But it ain't right now.

And that's realistic.