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author Kai T. Ohlhus <k.ohlhus@gmail.com>
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3 title: Donate
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10 Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise.
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11 Your contributions help to ensure that Octave will continue to improve.
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19 If you are already an Octave user and would like to see it improve more rapidly,
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20 then please donate so that we can spend more of our time working on Octave.
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21 If we could raise as little as $300,000/year,
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22 we could pay several key developers to work full time on Octave.
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23 Given even the most conservative estimate of the number of users of Octave,
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24 this amount could easily be reached if every user contributed the cost of
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25 a few lattes.
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27 If your company has a budget for numerical computing tools,
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28 consider spending 10% (or more!) of that on Octave.
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29 Do you expect Octave to improve on a $0 budget
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30 while the proprietary tools are well-funded by your license fees?
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32 Consider [hiring someone][1] to implement the specific features you need.
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34 Bitcoin donations also accepted at this address: [1E6HchBMX1EfiJQhSUanuF4VYKk552tEHF][2]
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