First, lets address your original comments. These are your words "in which they are saying OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable, untested, insecure, etc.".
Your characterization implies that the main theme of the paper is "OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable, insecure, etc". Please find me a single line in the PDF YOU linked to that implies "OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable and insecure".
How incredibly dishonest of you. You've presented all your evidence as simply your own assertions, experience and anecdotes. Where is YOUR data?
Lets examine your own words :-
>"There are several open source companies, which stand by their "products", and offer support contracts"
Several? How many? Out of how many in total? What contracts have you looked at? How do they compare to other contracts offered to DoD by non-open source companies?
>I've worked some with Oracle databases. Most organizations are paying through the nose for little benefit;
That is your experience and assertion. Why should anyone care? Are you a well known person in the database domain whose opinion is widely respected?
>I've found the popular OSS licenses quite simple to understand and there are excellent explanations available; Most Open Source apps use one of these, though there might be 100 which are OSI approved.
Okay so YOU have found them simple. Again why is your anectdote and experience so superior? Are you a well known licensing expert?
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See, its rather easy to accuse someone of FUD, its another thing to actually provide evidence beyond some vague arguments. :)
Your characterization implies that the main theme of the paper is "OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable, insecure, etc". Please find me a single line in the PDF YOU linked to that implies "OSS is unsuitable for enterprises, unscalable and insecure".
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> And finally, the biggest one. The VA story. - https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
How incredibly dishonest of you. You've presented all your evidence as simply your own assertions, experience and anecdotes. Where is YOUR data?
Lets examine your own words :-
>"There are several open source companies, which stand by their "products", and offer support contracts"
Several? How many? Out of how many in total? What contracts have you looked at? How do they compare to other contracts offered to DoD by non-open source companies?
>I've worked some with Oracle databases. Most organizations are paying through the nose for little benefit;
That is your experience and assertion. Why should anyone care? Are you a well known person in the database domain whose opinion is widely respected?
>I've found the popular OSS licenses quite simple to understand and there are excellent explanations available; Most Open Source apps use one of these, though there might be 100 which are OSI approved.
Okay so YOU have found them simple. Again why is your anectdote and experience so superior? Are you a well known licensing expert? --------------------
See, its rather easy to accuse someone of FUD, its another thing to actually provide evidence beyond some vague arguments. :)