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.\" dhcp-contrib.5
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1996-1999 Internet Software Consortium.
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.\" This file is part of the ISC DHCP distribution. The documentation
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.\" Support and other services are available for ISC products - see
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.\" http://www.isc.org for more information.
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.TH dhcp-contrib 5
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.SH NAME
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Contributing to the Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution
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.SH EXHORTATION
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.PP
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The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution has historically
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been funded through the donation of various charitable and
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non-charitable organizations, as well as by individual contributions.
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To some degree, support for the distribution has been done on a
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volunteer basis, but by and large the reason that you have this
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distribution in your hands right now is because people like you have
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provided funding for it.
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.PP
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We would like to encourage you to continue to provide such support, or
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to begin providing it if you have not in the past. You are in no way
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obliged to provide us with any support at all, and this message is not
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intended to guilt-trip you about providing support. If you choose
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not to provide support, for whatever reason, you aren't going to be
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treated differently on the mailing lists, and your requests for
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features aren't going to be prioritized any differently. If you want
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to be treated differently, you can buy a formal support contract, of
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course, but this document is about contributions, not support
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contracts.
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.SH FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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.PP
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Q: So if I won't be treated differently, why contribute?
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.PP
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A: The obvious
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answer is self-interest. If you contribute, it means that the author
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will have time to work on stuff that's not of the utmost high
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priority. People are constantly asking for things that we would
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really like to provide, but for which we have no time. By
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contributing, you are literally giving us time to do these things.
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The amount of time varies with the contribution, of course, but if
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everybody contributes a little bit, it can add up to a lot.
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.PP
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Q: But everybody isn't required to contribute. If I contribute and
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nobody else does, doesn't that make me kind of a sucker?
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.PP
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A: Obviously, we don't think so, but think about this: if you contribute,
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then we can point out to others that we've received contributions, and
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this will make the idea of contributing seem more legitimate to them,
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making it more likely that they will contribute. So your
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contribution has more value than just the money you provide - it also
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helps us to raise funds from others.
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.PP
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Q: If I contribute, I want a say in what work gets done.
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.PP
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A: We do sell support contracts, and we will also do development work
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on specification if we feel it is relevant (although you won't get to
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own it). This can be quite expensive, though - much more than even
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the maximum we'd expect you to donate. So no, contributing doesn't
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buy you a say in what work gets done.
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.PP
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Q: I work for a charity that feeds the homeless. Should my charity
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contribute?
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.PP
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A: Absolutely not! The idea here is not to take food out of the mouths
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of poor people. If donating to us would mean that somebody in need
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that you could have helped will go without help, keep the money.
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It's not worth it to us. This goes for providing shelter,
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psychiatric aid, legal assistance, and any other similar charity work.
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.PP
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Q: Cool! I work for a university, helping students who are in need of
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an education, so we shouldn't contribute, right?
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.PP
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A: No, that's not quite what we mean. Sure, if you work for an
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organization that provides free education to needy people, at whatever
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level, then we'd rather you did that than support us. But if your
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university has a big budget for running the computer center, can
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afford to plant nice gardens and maintain nice lawns, and maybe has
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all its dorms wired for ethernet, then even if you qualify as a
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nonprofit under federal law (or the law in your own country) you
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should still contribute. DHCP is just as much a part of your
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infrastructure as your campus wiring.
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.PP
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Q: This software came on a CD that I bought. Haven't I already
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contributed?
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.PP
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A: If you're seeing this notice, and you didn't see a notice saying
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that the people who sold you your CD contributed to us, then no, you
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haven't already contributed. In general, we encourage people to
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include this software on their distributions if they feel it would be
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useful, and we do not require them to contribute in exchange for that
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privilege.
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.PP
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Q: I've contributed to the development of this software by submitting bug
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reports and patches. Why should I also contribute money?
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.PP
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A: When you contributed these bug reports and patches, was there zero
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effort involved on our part in integrating the patches or figuring out
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what was wrong? Probably not. Bug reports and patches can be
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extremely valuable, and we can't say that in no event do they qualify
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you to get out of contributing - after all, we're leaving that up to
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your judgement anyway, aren't we? But unless your contribution was
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pretty massive, and is actually in this distribution, we aren't likely
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to agree with you about this.
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.PP
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Q: Software should be free. You have no right to ask for money to
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support this effort.
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.PP
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A: You are entitled to that opinion, but please don't raise it on the
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mailing list, as it will tend to get people excited. Please remember
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that while copying software is generally a very cheap process,
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creating it is not. The amount of work that's gone into this software
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package is quite significant, and there's plenty more work to do. If
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you happen to be in college, working toward your degree, and have no
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social life (and yes, I've been there and done that) then it can seem
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like there's no additional cost to hacking on software - after all,
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it's fun, isn't it? While this is true, it is also true that you're a
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lot better off with this software than you would have been with the
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software I wrote in college. Enough said?
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.PP
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Q: Can't I contribute work instead of software?
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.PP
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A: We'd like to encourage that to some extent, and are indeed trying to
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bring some developers into the fold, but you shouldn't expect that
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your willingness to do this translates directly into an opportunity.
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For example, you may want very much to work for [insert the name of
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your favorite commercial Linux vendor here], but unless you have the
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appropriate skills, they like you, they're willing to pay what you
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need, and they have work that's appropriate to your skills, you're not
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going to get hired there.
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.PP
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Q: I don't contribute to the Free Software Foundation - why do you rate?
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.PP
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A: You should contribute to the Free Software Foundation too!
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.PP
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Q: I don't contribute to [insert name of your local food bank here].
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Why do you rate?
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.PP
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A: If you feel bad about not contributing to the local food bank, this is
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a very easy problem to solve, and we encourage you to do so.
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.PP
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Q: Once I've contributed once, am I done?
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.PP
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A: We'd like to encourage you to contribute once a year. If you want,
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we can send you a reminder notice on the year anniversary of your
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original contribution. If you don't specifically ask for this, we
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won't force it on you. No salesperson will call. No spam will be
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sent. We definitely won't try to convince you that it's been a year
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since you last contributed when it hasn't been a year yet.
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.PP
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Q: I don't have you in my budget this year.
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.PP
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A: Fine, put us in your budget for next year!
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.PP
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Q: It's really hard to do charitable contributions at my organization.
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.PP
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A: We'd be happy to sell you a product instead. If you choose to go
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down this route, what we'l sell you is a license for some number of
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clients and a CD. Just let us know how many DHCP clients you have,
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and we'll use the following schedule to figure out how much to invoice
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you (shipping is included on orders of $100 or more). Even if you can
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do charitable contributions, you might want to use this schedule as a
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guideline for figuring out how much to donate. It is only a
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guideline, of course - if the amounts listed feel like too much or too
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little to you, do what seems appropriate.
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.PP
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.nf
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$10k for businesses supporting >10k nodes
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$5k for charities supporting >10k nodes
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$2.5k for businesses supporting >1k nodes
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$1k for charities supporting >1k nodes
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$500 for businesses with >500 nodes
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$250 for charities with >500 nodes
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$200 for businesses with >150 nodes
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$100 for charities with >150 nodes
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$100 for businesses with <150 nodes
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$50 for charities with <150 nodes
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$25 for home use, client or server
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$0.10 to $1 per client for businesses that are reselling the
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client, depending on volume.
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.fi
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.PP
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Q: Are you nuts? I live in [insert your country name here] and the
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typical annual salary for a programmer is less than what you're asking
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me to contribute!
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.PP
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A: We leave the choice of how much to contribute up to you. Really.
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We aren't kidding.
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.PP
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Q: Can I contribute with my credit card?
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.PP
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A: Yes. The details haven't been ironed out at this writing, but if you
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send mail to dhcp-contributions@isc.org, we'll work it out. By the
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time you read this, we may have a web interface set up - if so, it
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will be linked in at http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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dhcpd.conf(5), dhcpd.leases(5), dhclient.conf(5), dhcpd(8),
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dhclient(8), RFC2132, RFC2131.
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.SH AUTHOR
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The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution was written by Ted
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Lemon <mellon@isc.org> under a contract with Vixie Labs. Funding for
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this project was provided through the Internet Software Consortium.
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Information about the Internet Software Consortium can be found at
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.B http://www.isc.org/isc.
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