[Info-vax] BASIC (was Re: 64-bit)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:17:46 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:

> In some security-sensitive environments, such as the environments some
> VMS systems are running on, you can't just install a scripting language
> from the Internet that has not been validated by your vendor (ie: VSI).

I don’t understand this. Corporate machines are supposed to be locked down 
for security, yet they let some third party (VSI, Microsoft, whoever) 
control what does and doesn’t go on their machines? Surely they would want 
to be the ones with that control. Aren’t these proprietary platforms 
supposed to give them that control?