[teddyh]

> buy for parity, build for competitive advantage.

Yes. As Joel Spolsky put it in 2001:

“If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.”

— Joel Spolsky, In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...

[cratermoon]

Joel was one of the voices that helped me understand that, while my analysis was useful for myself and the employer at the time, my conclusion was not an especially original insight.