I bet cyanogenmod's best features will be baked into android, i mean it would be stupid to hire him and be like do what we think it should be, but i bet the UI will become one so you don't have to have cyanogenMOD
lol, considering the state of the samsung patches to android, they better hire him and put in a top decisional position... or at least that's what I'll do.
Is android open source? So I think that if your in any position where you can have a good relationship with google like a handset producer is a plus. It is better than being some programmer doing that as a hobby that is the point I was trying to get accross.