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I love the idea and think a raspberry pi with some basic setup could easily solve this although why not something like a Square Register - https://squareup.com/

I love the idea and think a raspberry pi with some basic setup could easily solve this although why not something like a Square Register - https://squareup.com/stand https://squareup.com/stand What I would be more interesting in is a system that is a POS or hooks into a POS (square) and connects the offline with online. One way I have seen this done is at Target - via a credit card. If a user pays for something both online and offline with a credit card, a system could figure this out and match up the users past history. Just a thought :) Great stuff!

moron4hire 13y ago
I've interviewed a couple of people who are using Square right now. They are very happy with their systems and I cannot argue with that. Square is doing awesome things; more power to them. My position is that more choices is a good thing. If Square were good enough for everyone, then the iPhone would be good enough for everyone. But it's not. There is room in the market for choice. I'd like to make choice as simple and painless as possible. In my original post, I talked about being inspired by Ubuntu and Linux Mint and Arduino and the like. The way they work for grabbing the zeitgeist of people is that they make it very easy to bring people into the FOSS wheelhouse, which opens the doors for them to explore into the vast choice that FOSS provides. You might buy a preconfigured Ubuntu system today, and maybe, just maybe, 6 months down the road you are compiling your own software. I just can see someone sitting in their newly-opened microbrewpub with an RPi in their hands (it's not that big of a stretch, the same people who are interested in brewing are often interested in a variety of DIY projects) and thinking "what can I do with this?" Let's make that simple for them. Let's make a brewpub distro. Or something.

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I love the idea and think a raspberry pi with some basic setup could easily solve this although why not something like a Square Register - https://squareup.com/

by johnmurch 13y ago

moron4hire 13y ago
I've interviewed a couple of people who are using Square right now. They are very happy with their systems and I cannot argue with that. Square is doing awesome things; more power to them. My position is that more choices is a good thing. If Square were good enough for everyone, then the iPhone would be good enough for everyone. But it's not. There is room in the market for choice. I'd like to make choice as simple and painless as possible. In my original post, I talked about being inspired by Ubuntu and Linux Mint and Arduino and the like. The way they work for grabbing the zeitgeist of people is that they make it very easy to bring people into the FOSS wheelhouse, which opens the doors for them to explore into the vast choice that FOSS provides. You might buy a preconfigured Ubuntu system today, and maybe, just maybe, 6 months down the road you are compiling your own software. I just can see someone sitting in their newly-opened microbrewpub with an RPi in their hands (it's not that big of a stretch, the same people who are interested in brewing are often interested in a variety of DIY projects) and thinking "what can I do with this?" Let's make that simple for them. Let's make a brewpub distro. Or something.