Frequently Asked Questions
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     Version 1.0, December 17, 2005
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BOKIN Model Frequently Asked Questions
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 1. What does BOKIN mean?
     BOKIN means collecting donations in Japanese. (BO=collect, KIN=money)

 2. What is the purpose to require the person who start a BOKIN model business being a registered corporation?
     The purpose is to prevent people from donating to the person who does not exist actually.

 3. Is annoying copyright management necessary?
     Yes, it is. Copyright management is absolutely necessary for consumers to keep on using the BOKINware at ease.

     It is dangerous to use the software whose copyright is not neatly managed. If you use such software, you might suddenly be prohibited to use it, or be claimed a license fee of high priced. These are not imaginary fears but troubles of reality.

 4. Why is program license limited to GNU GPL?
     Because GNU GPL defends consumers in two points.

       * Copyleft License
          Since GNU GPL is copyleft license, it makes a program free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. As a result, consumer can keep on using the BOKINware at ease in the future.

       * Widely Known
          Since GNU GPL is widely known, and is explained frequently, it does not become the load to consumer. It is troublesome for consumer to understand new licenses.

 5. What is the purpose of the donor list?
     There are two purposes.

       * To defend freedom of donation.
          The consumer can decide whether to donate after understanding the situation of the donation. If nothing being informed, freedom does not exist there. In BOKIN model, consumers are not isolated existence.

       * To praise donation.
          To praise donation brings new donors. Since BOKIN model owes all to people's free wills, we cannot praise the donation too much.

 6. Is donation spent on the BOKINware?
     It depends on the management of the corporation. Since donations become the proceeds of the corporation, the corporation itself decides the usage under its freedom.

 7. Is the donor list kept true?
     It is very difficult to mix lies in the public information, because it is checked by various methods.

       * Donors can confirm whether they are listed.

       * People can ask whether to have donated to the donors in the list.

       * The tax office can examine the contradiction between the content of the list and the content of the declaration of the corporation's taxation business.

 8. Why is the corporation prohibited from doing an individual supply of profit for the donors?
     When individual supply of profit becomes ordinary, donation fall into the payment for the profit. We cannot call it donation. BOKIN Model business should be supported only by people's free will.