On 1/20/24 19:03, phoebus phoebus wrote:
Hello,
Hm ok, it's all too much guesswork then.
I understand that the lack of detailed information can make it challenging to
provide precise solutions.
I believe I have addressed these questions as accurately and honestly as
possible in my previous response to Greg, while also incorporating the
information we discussed earlier.
Regards,
Thierry
I might point out in all this hand waving, that no one puts a contract
out for bid, without specifying the performance required to do the job,
which we aren't privileged to see. A description of what it must do,
should not be a copyright probem as its is part and parcel of the "clean
room" description the coders work from. That and what you might be
willing to pay a competent programmer to do might sweeten the project
enough for a free software developer to do. These people here are doing
it to aid the free software environment, doing it for our thanks, but
they like to be able to eat and pay the rent. like TANSTAAFL, it is not
optional.
The OP's choice is not to do that specification. If that spec is
forthcoming, and doable with the tools we have you may pique someones
interest. They in turn may contact you privately with an estimate/offer.
But w/o that spec, so the coder knows for sure what it must do,
circular without any solution will be this thread. We may even already
have a POS system you could use. I know for a fact one of the local
grocery stores here in this village of around 6000 is running something
on linux in the checkout lanes, I saw it boot up after a power failure
before the actual app was auto-started. What that app was, no one had
been instructed as it was totally auto starting. Typical of the
checkout lanes I suspect.
FWIW that coder isn't me, my coding heyday was in the later 70's thru
about 2002. Now I'm 89 and retired for 22 years, diabetic for 40 years,
chest full of hardware, running on what some might call borrowed time.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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