well actually while I get where you're coming from, that's still correct. if AOSP was more open he wouldn't have left.
Google doesn't give a damn about openness right now.
"If AOSP were more open he wouldn't have left."
Can you substantiate that statement at all? AOSP's "openness" is determined by its licensing, which is a standard Apache 2.0 license. The issue was whether certain vendors would contribute to AOSP under that license, not whether AOSP was open enough.