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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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15 {% include donate.html %} |
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19 - **[Free Software Foundation donation page][1]** |
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21 If you are already an Octave user and would like to see it improve more rapidly, |
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22 then please donate so that we can spend more of our time working on Octave. |
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23 If we could raise as little as $300,000/year, |
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24 we could pay several key developers to work full time on Octave. |
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25 Given even the most conservative estimate of the number of users of Octave, |
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26 this amount could easily be reached if every user contributed the cost of |
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27 a few lattes. |
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29 If your company has a budget for numerical computing tools, |
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30 consider spending 10% (or more!) of that on Octave. |
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31 Do you expect Octave to improve on a $0 budget |
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32 while the proprietary tools are well-funded by your license fees? |
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34 Consider [hiring someone][2] to implement the specific features you need. |
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36 Bitcoin donations also accepted at this address: [1E6HchBMX1EfiJQhSUanuF4VYKk552tEHF][3] |
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38 [1]: https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10 |
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39 [2]: {{ "commercial-support.html" | relative_url }} |
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40 [3]: bitcoin:1E6HchBMX1EfiJQhSUanuF4VYKk552tEHF |