I found this blog post by Mark Shuttleworth to be very interesting.   Mainly because I know very little about the development process of open source software.  It outlines some interesting points and if you have any points, please comment on the original post :-)

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/288

Since the release of Ubuntu's latest LTS, Mark seems to have been doing the rounds of interviews.  You may find some of these interesting...

 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/148

 http://lwn.net/Articles/284760/