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maint: add "pages/menu" subfolder to get a better overview. Pages in this folder have a menu entry at the top bar of the website.
author Kai T. Ohlhus <k.ohlhus@gmail.com>
date Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:55:06 +0900
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2 layout: page
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3 title: Donate
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4 menu: true
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5 permalink: donate
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8 > **Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise.**
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9 > **Your contributions help to ensure that Octave will continue to improve.**
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11 - [FSF Donation Page](https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10)
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12 - [PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UYHVW7R596RZ8)
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13 to John W. Eaton Consulting, Inc. (Octave project leader)
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14 - [Bitcoin](bitcoin:1E6HchBMX1EfiJQhSUanuF4VYKk552tEHF)
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15 (1E6HchBMX1EfiJQhSUanuF4VYKk552tEHF)
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16 - [Commercial support options]({{ "commercial-support.html" | relative_url }})
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17 to implement the specific features
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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?