1000€ is approximatively 1290$, it is (almost) the same price as the PSO
itself (and we are talking about a fine per month of not providing to the
finances the file with all the reports).
I'd be honest with you. If I had knew about this a few months earlier I would
have bought at least 5 "The Penguin Wee" in your store with Trisquel, and
some touch screen monitors and a (compatible) POS printer to sell them
already with only free software as a POS (since we can do that) for those
that can't pay the 1000€ or 1500€ for a simple POS with Windows 7. That
could even help your business and help the free software in general.
For now I will probably just use my laptop as a rescue (but I still need to
search and study a little bit more about this law to see what I can and what
I can't do), but I will probably buy you one in a few months (since I can't
use this laptop for ever and since they are far cheaper than any similar
computer here). I just need to know how much time it will take for the
shipping for Portugal (and how could it cost) in order to plan it at least a
month before.
I'm not sure about this, but I think that, certified software (for the
Finances) only mean that it works with that kind of format (that is open
which is already a great thing) used by the Finance Controllers (when they
come with the USB Pen to get the reports). This is why in the list of
Certified Software we can find OpenBravo twice (it is free software since it
is licensed with GPLv2 and Mozilla Public License (adapted to the POS
business). They called that the OpenBravo Public License
(http://www.openbravo.com/content/openbravo-public-license).
The list can be found here :
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt%2Fpt%2FconsultaProgCertificadosM24.action&ei=DTLFUKHiDsKKhQe444C4CQ&usg=AFQjCNHkqC9szo31TJhMHDxi27Bq48ILvQ&sig2=SFDTY1M35YAX88MeDuvIGQ
