Re: Donation to GNU Octave

[Ismael Núñez-Riboni]

> Would you still consider giving 2e3 EUR as a donation, if we can 
arrange that?

I just checked all my e-mails and cannot exactly figure out where the 
notion of the 2e3 EUR is coming from... :-) Probably it was my e-mail in 
German? :

"...immerhin habe ich meinem Arbeitgeber (...) ca. 2000€ an einer 
Matlab-Lizenz gespart...".

Now I see the importance of writing always in English, sorry about that! 
:-) What I meant here was what I also wrote in my previous e-mail: my 
institute saved ca. 2000€ on a Matlab license, so I believe it's fair to 
pass some money to Octave, but the exact amount does not depend on me... 
Specially if the money is coming out of my pocket (i.e., a donation), 
even though I could deduce the money from taxes the amount of money I 
can deduce on donations has an upper limit surely lower than 2K€ per 
annum, particularly because I'm already spending for amnesty 
international... I was always thinking on one order of magnitude less, 
i.e., 2e2 EUR if I can deduce it from taxes and even two orders of 
magnitude less (ca. 50€) if I cannot. Sorry if I somehow made wrong 
expectations (I cannot really figure out where)...

Anyhow, the possibility of spending via the ffis is interesting. 
However, I believe that in this particular case it does not make a big 
difference and considering that I already spoke to my boss it would be 
better for me if I keep on with the institutional contribution and not 
the donation, but if you have a particular reason to decide for the 
ffis, let me know...

Cheers, Ismael.