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Overhaul Donate page.
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7 > **Octave development takes a lot of time and expertise.**
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8 > **Your contributions help to ensure that Octave will continue to improve.**
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10 - [FSF Donation Page](https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10)
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11 - [PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UYHVW7R596RZ8)
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12 to John W. Eaton Consulting, Inc. (Octave project leader)
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13 - [Bitcoin](bitcoin:1E6HchBMX1EfiJQhSUanuF4VYKk552tEHF)
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15 - [Commercial support options]({{ "commercial-support.html" | relative_url }})
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16 to implement the specific features
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18 If you are already an Octave user and would like to see it improve more rapidly,
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19 then please donate so that we can spend more of our time working on Octave.
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20 If we could raise as little as $300,000/year,
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21 we could pay several key developers to work full time on Octave.
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22 Given even the most conservative estimate of the number of users of Octave,
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23 this amount could easily be reached if every user contributed the cost of
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24 a few lattes.
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26 If your company has a budget for numerical computing tools,
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27 consider spending 10% (or more!) of that on Octave.
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28 Do you expect Octave to improve on a $0 budget
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29 while the proprietary tools are well-funded by your license fees?