An Xmas present for you to peruse, comment, and mull..

[Jeffry Smith]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> "Jon 'maddog' Hall" <maddog at li.org> writes:
>>

> Basically, there's historically been confusion over whether `OSS'
> could qualify as `COTS'--due at least in part do our own community's
> willingness to use "open" and "commercial" as opposing terms,
> implying an equivalence between "OSS" and "non-commercial"
> (where the latter term is actually pretty antithetical...).
>
Check the DoD links I sent earlier - there should be no confusion any
more.  DoD defines OSS as COTS now.