BiOS Baliwae, acronym from Billing Open Source Baliwae
is free software and open source billing for internet caffe, especially
that use GNU/Linux as operating system for their server and client PC.
BiOS is licensed under GNU Public License (GPL) version 3. BiOS is a web
based application, that developed using PHP, MySQL and other free
softwares, running on web server like Apache or Lighttpd.
BiOS
main program are divided into two side, the operator side and client
side. Client can know the time duration that they use and cost that they
must pay from their PC. The administrator can set the internet price
per hour, set happy hour, can monitor client, start, stop and reset
billing, also print out the bill, view report in 3D graphic, etc. As
free application, BiOS have same features and functions that provided by
other commercial / close source billing . With the easy interface and
instalation that not require many dependency, and can run on all linux
distribution and cross platform operating system, make BiOS better than
other.
BiOS Baliwae was developed at Indonesia. Currently the program and manual instalation is only available in Indonesian language.
http://www.gnu.org/fry/
Why Free Software?
Because free software as
Richard Stallman say,
respect the freedom of the users that actually run it. Freedom to run
it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without
changes
Why open source?