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Welcome to Panela, Matt Harrison's take on mostly Open Source, Linux, Python, innovation in those areas, other buzzwords and Dick Proenneke. It comes complete with the illustrations as needed. Note the opinions expressed here are merely my opinions and not the opinions of my employer.
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Open source development and OpenOffice.org
Gnomer (and Novell employee), Michael Meeks, provides some great insight into the health and viability of the Open Office project. A complex wonder of engineering (supporting .doc in some cases better than Word) while also supporting open standards, Open Office is arguably one of the most important pieces of software out there. It's indispensable for Linux freetards, and quite useful on Mac and Windows as well. Any commercial company thinking throwing code over the fence is "open sourcing", should think again and read Michael's conclusion.
Perhaps I need to update my magic quadrant box from 3 years ago, and the examples of them... Looks like those going in to the blue zone have to tread carefully to truly make open source work. Here's some slides from OSCON 2007 about one opinion of the "right" way to open source.