LJ
You're a nut-job conspiracy theorist! From what I've read to appear to take it as a personal affront that someone didn't give you everything you wanted.
Oh and to clarify one thing, COTS is only COTS as long as you take it as it is produced. As soon as you change anything at all it becomes MOTS (Modified off the shelf) which then starts the cash tills ringing. As soon as it is MOTS then there are two sets of drawings (one for original and one for the modified) plus associated paperwork etc. That isn't a cash cow, that's just good engineering of a complex system.