Somebody needs to open Android back up

And adding hyperbole will not help. The day you can legally download (any) iOS source, and use it for something we can talk about iOS being the same as Android. Until that day, they are in different leagues, for me at least.

Also, demanding that others do what you want them to do for your benefit and at their expense is not something that will take you very far. The parts of Android that are Google's code, they are free to do whatever they want with them. The others, if they want to use my code, they'd better abide by the rules, or will lose the right to do so. Whatever we ask from Google, it will only succeed if it benefits both them and us in some way or another.

We could agree that the current situation is not optimal from our perspective, but we must not forget ours it's not the only rightful perspective.