On "Open" and Open Standards

Michael Steeber on Mozilla's new Firefox phone OS:

The entire operating system is built around the open standards of HTML5, allowing all of the device capabilities to be built as HTML5 applications. This is a stark contrast to the closed, rather locked down nature of the iOS ecosystem.

Just because the Firefox OS runs an HTML5 platform doesn't mean it is "open" or "closed". It simply means that is the development framework. Apple uses and supports a lot of open standards, AAC, h.264, HTML5, CSS3, and many others.

An open standard does not equal an open OS.