Comments on: Opportunity Knocks http://hackervisions.org/?p=563 A blog at the intersection of freedom, technology, and community. Mon, 03 May 2010 03:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: James Vasile http://hackervisions.org/?p=563&cpage=1#comment-854 James Vasile Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:42:27 +0000 http://hackervisions.org/?p=563#comment-854 Yes, point-of-sale stuff is another huge market that is ripe for Free Software being deployed by people who make their money customizing the installation rather than writing buggy software. Yes, point-of-sale stuff is another huge market that is ripe for Free Software being deployed by people who make their money customizing the installation rather than writing buggy software.

]]> By: Ian http://hackervisions.org/?p=563&cpage=1#comment-853 Ian Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:37:41 +0000 http://hackervisions.org/?p=563#comment-853 The one that always gets me is the ordering kiosk at restaurants, the little, ubiquitous in NYC, touch screen devices that wait staff go use to get your order to the kitchen and generate a bill. It is such a discrete dedicated task; I've wondered for years whether any of the existing systems are running free software or what it would take to get the right software written. The one that always gets me is the ordering kiosk at restaurants, the little, ubiquitous in NYC, touch screen devices that wait staff go use to get your order to the kitchen and generate a bill.

It is such a discrete dedicated task; I’ve wondered for years whether any of the existing systems are running free software or what it would take to get the right software written.

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