Andy Updegrove has an interesting post up in which he analyzes a product comparison from InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy. The upshot of Kennedy's comparison of office productivity application suites is that he finds the commercially developed, non-open source SoftMaker suite of productivity applications to be the best suite for sharing and competing with Microsoft Office. He also fires off some notable criticisms of the open source OpenOffice suite. The funny thing is, SoftMaker is a small, commercial provider without an open source arm.

Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears. Stories can be buried on sites such as Digg by abusive users with an axe to grind.

Will Novell, Dell turn to open-source M&A to grow? Novell has expressed interest in acquisitions, and Dell may have its eyes on the open source storage market.

Is the world now an open source society? Do open source and the Internet values on which it is based have a political dimension?

Getting the most out of OpenOffice.org Writer. It is, without a doubt, the most frequently used application in the OpenOffice.org suite.

Occasionally, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational resources are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find an updated set of more than 40 collections and resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.