They're also very honest about their problems. The @htc on Twitter has openly acknowledged some of the early bugs with Hero, particularly in regards to the blocking on network IO when signed into Facebook and the Twitter 32 bit post limit. He's kept us all informed regarly while HTC engineers work on problems and told us as soon as the updates have come out.
He isn't always in a position to say something - people have recently noticed a bug in the messaging app that when fixed increases the battery life remarkably - but as soon as he does he tells their customers.
To be clear, HTC was legally required to provide the source code and it apparently took prodding from developers of the code they used to make it happen[1].
They may be more developer friendly than other Android packagers, but I wouldn't consider the release of this code as evidence of that.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 22.5 ms ] threadI was so keen on getting a Samsung I7500, but HTC seems to be much better in packaging the latest release and also releasing the source.
Bias aside, they seem to be very committed to the nature of AOSP and they also seem motivated to help it grow.
He isn't always in a position to say something - people have recently noticed a bug in the messaging app that when fixed increases the battery life remarkably - but as soon as he does he tells their customers.
They may be more developer friendly than other Android packagers, but I wouldn't consider the release of this code as evidence of that.
[1] http://www.phonenews.com/htc-releases-hero-source-code-for-d...