CSM

Commodity Software Manifesto

This initialism has come to mean something related but much more concrete in my latter day programming practice. The original, ranty, somewhat puerile statement, and name don't convey its' meaning.

In actual practice, this refers to a warranty for service I provide in enterprise consults that the workmanship is free of defects relative to spec without expiry. Of course I won't let this be abused to get new free labor, retro fudge the specs, etc. but what constitutes corrective action versus new service is invariably clear in actual cases.