I still don't see what any of that has got to do with Android. If Dell did some deal with Skype for example they could easily ship PCs with Linux and bundle a version of Skype that for example was some wizzy version of Skype that did things other other versions couldn't do but only worked on Dell PCs.

I really don't see that this Skype-locked-down-to-Verizon situation is anything to do with how open Android is.