Attention ViewTouch!

I appreciate the plug over there but I will be very surprised if I hear from the poor bastards. They might as well be putting shingles on a roof with chewing gum for what they are doing now.

This is about the 87th POS discussion at Slashdot since Cmdr Taco began shaving a few short years ago. It's a typical discussion over there. Everybody's typing one stupid comment after another. It makes me nearly toss my cookies reading them.

How fucking hard is it, one wonders, to type things into Google like Linux POS, Linux Restaurant Software, FreeBSD Point of Sale, then click on a couple of links?

I have people blow me off because even though all the components are open source, my stuff isn't. Honestly, it is so boring to deal with people like the ones doing the comments over there.

It isn't enough for them that I can cut their POS costs by 3/4. They'd rather do without a system than actually pay what it costs me to put one together for them. Of course it also costs them an arm and a leg to do without a POS system, but they have no problem wasting all their money by paying the costs of doing without a POS system, typically about 3 times every year what the POS costs, year after year.

I'll be on the Oregon Coast tomorrow morning at a new customer site, a 3 hour drive from Eugene, Sunday no less, to help someone who actually accepts the idea that he should have to pay me something for what I do. The fellow is up from 36K a month in revenue before the POS system to 54K a month with it. I have all the time in the world helping people who want to be helped but the people who are putting comments on that thread over there are real slow learners.

Post #171,439 by pwhysall 8/28/04 3:41:29 AM Reply	Attention ViewTouch! This man needs your help! You need his money! This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. [link\|http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119613&cid=10093290\|http://linux.slashdo...9613&cid=10093290] Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #171,484 by Reporter 8/28/04 11:15:31 PM Reply	Re: Attention ViewTouch! I appreciate the plug over there but I will be very surprised if I hear from the poor bastards. They might as well be putting shingles on a roof with chewing gum for what they are doing now. This is about the 87th POS discussion at Slashdot since Cmdr Taco began shaving a few short years ago. It's a typical discussion over there. Everybody's typing one stupid comment after another. It makes me nearly toss my cookies reading them. How fucking hard is it, one wonders, to type things into Google like Linux POS, Linux Restaurant Software, FreeBSD Point of Sale, then click on a couple of links? I have people blow me off because even though all the components are open source, my stuff isn't. Honestly, it is so boring to deal with people like the ones doing the comments over there. It isn't enough for them that I can cut their POS costs by 3/4. They'd rather do without a system than actually pay what it costs me to put one together for them. Of course it also costs them an arm and a leg to do without a POS system, but they have no problem wasting all their money by paying the costs of doing without a POS system, typically about 3 times every year what the POS costs, year after year. I'll be on the Oregon Coast tomorrow morning at a new customer site, a 3 hour drive from Eugene, Sunday no less, to help someone who actually accepts the idea that he should have to pay me something for what I do. The fellow is up from 36K a month in revenue before the POS system to 54K a month with it. I have all the time in the world helping people who want to be helped but the people who are putting comments on that thread over there are real slow learners.
Post #171,485 by boxley 8/28/04 11:22:52 PM Reply	hearty amens when I was running my own shop open source was often puked on because I charged to install and maintain it. They didnt understand the sheer fact that costs were going to be lower. I remember one client balking at paying for a CD from redhat because I could download it for free. I old them point blank that by paying for a CD they would have a quick restore if something broke but I wasnt going to download it on my dime and install at their site gratis. they bought WinNT instead. thanx, bill These miserable swine, having nothing but illusions to live on, marshmallows for the soul in place of good meat, will now stoop to any disgusting level to prevent even those miserable morsels from vanishing into thin air. The country is being destroyed by these stupid, vicious right-wing fanatics, the spiritual brothers of the brownshirts and redstars, collectivists and authoritarians all, who would not know freedom if it bit them on the ass, who spend all their time trying to stamp, bludgeon, and eviscerate the very idea of the individual's right to his own private world. DRL questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]

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