viewtouch VS materials

Created a long time ago by a really cool Redditor: https://www.viewtouch.com/

I am a software development manager. I have purchased and awarded every software developer whom I didn't fire after a week or two with a complete set of the books authored and typeset by W. Richard Stevens. My code, GPL'd nearly ten years ago, represents my life's work and is replete with the code found in Rich Stevens' books. I am very proud that I was able to help the programmers I hired to be better programmers and to help them write better code because they were able to rely upon what Rich Stevens was able to pass on to them.

And why are they not running [Point of Sale on Raspberry Pi](https://www.viewtouch.com) ?

Chipsee makes an [all in one 15.6 display](http://www.viewtouch.com/) which will do this much more easily, much more attractively and at less cost than this.

Per his website it would appear he did, as "ViewTouch provides 24/7 phone support and training, updates and backup." So, you know, good, but why not just mention "Yeah I'm doing this through my company that does in fact provide support" rather than "I've been doing this for 35 years"? What am I meant to take from that other than "My software doesn't go down" which sends the message that he's not planning for failure. The worst part of this, then, is that that's not actually the case and this was an opportunity for him to advertise his business rather than just dribbling his highly-experienced balls in the guy's mouth.

I didn't realize the code was GPL but just found it at https://github.com/ViewTouch/viewtouch, which has lots of information. Awesome!

The source code is available via https://github.com/ViewTouch/viewtouch

ViewTouch point of sale offers the use of the software at no cost but does charge $49 a month for 24/7 support.

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