[Info-vax] BASIC compiler in the hobbyist distribution

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-06-01 00:14:16 +0000, David Froble said:

> Sure sounds to me like a great reason to "just say no" to Linux.

Linux works well for many folks.

More like a good reason to understand who and what you're depending on, 
and what your external formal and informal support relationships and 
channels and dependencies are.

In the ever-larger and more complex systems that you, I and many others 
are now working with, application development work increasingly 
involves integration, and work well beyond the more traditional 
development and testing and documentation and support work.  You should 
ponder what software and hardware you can or should use or reuse (or 
expunge), and knowing what components you still need to contract for or 
to develop yourself in-house.  Knowing who you can call, as well as 
recognizing that you ultimately still own the issues if or should your 
acquisitions or outsourcing efforts fail, is important, too.

Some fodder, from the perspective of a bunch that's looking into open 
source integration in their environment: 
<https://18f.gsa.gov/2014/11/26/how-to-use-more-open-source/>


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