> will evoke specific concepts in the people I work with So you're aware the FOSS developers are not suppliers but feel comfortable to explain it to management

> will evoke specific concepts in the people I work with So you're aware the FOSS developers are not suppliers but feel comfortable to explain it to management in a way that clearly makes them responsible so they're able to understand what exactly? That their developers outsourced the hard to implement libraries to unpaid volunteers and only handle the mostly trivial business logic? The term was most definitely coined to offload responsibility in big enterprise. The uncomfortable reality is that productivity would take a nosedive without using these FOSS libraries/tools, but nobody wants to admit that this comes with risks (even though they're way smaller then implementing it yourself, probably). I'd agree that it's a complicated issue, but maybe using terms management is comfortable with isn't a good idea either if their meaning didn't actually apply at all.