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Gartner analyst Brian Prentice and Zack Urlocker writing for InfoWorld have both posted thoughtful takes on open source's place in the world now that big proprietary software vendors are scooping open source players up. The fact that there are so many members of the 'open source community' ready to sell out ? now that?s interesting, writes Prentice. Well, actually, he adds, it?s interesting only to the extent you still believe the romantic narrative that commonly circulates around Open Source. That story involves bands of fiercely independent geek-heroes. Actually, what's interesting to me is that a lot of people do still believe that kind of thing.