[bruce511]

I think you are using "open" in one sense (open source) whereas the original meaning may have been in the sense of "more open use".

Obviously yes, Google is more open source than say apple, but clearly less than say red hat. That's not to say Google is "completely open source" but objectively it's "more" than some.

In terms of usability though Google is pretty open.

You can install any software on your android phone, whereas apple controls everything you do on ios.

You can access pretty much all Google services via an api, Facebook and twitter much less so.

In general, Google is more open in that sense.

In the sense of open source, Google is more open than some, but generally would not be considered an "open source company". Other than android there's not much offering there.