Do you know? Tax-exempt status for public charities is contingent on a broad base of public support. Small gifts beget larger gifts. Your small gift goes much further than the numerals on the check suggest.
If you intend to itemize deductions on your 2025 U.S. income tax, you need to know The Dauug House is not yet exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. You can find our pending application via our Locate page, and we hope to know more in early 2026.
It’s important that supporters of our Dauug | 36 transparently functioning computer initiative donate for the right reasons with realistic expectations. Our priority at The Dauug House is building a safer world for eight billion people, and would-be sponsors who aren’t motivated first and foremost by global safety may come away disappointed. Here are some things we’d like you to know up front.
Many of our donors will never own a Dauug computer themselves. Our designs are best suited for critical infrastructure—as in mixing chemicals, protecting the electrical grid, that kind of stuff. Dauug computers are intended to be built by their end users—think of soldering upwards of 10,000 connections within the area of a sheet of letter paper. You can build it on a kitchen counter, but unless you’re geeky and persistent in the same way we are, you may not want to.
Dauug computers will never be consumer devices. On purpose, Dauug | 36 is incompatible with all the software you’ve heard of. (This stems from secure features in the design. Incompatibility by itself is not effective security.) Dauug | 36 will never run Microsoft Windows. It’s not expected to run Linux. It’s hundreds of times slower, hundreds of times more expensive, has hundreds of times less primary storage, and takes hundreds of times more physical space than many of today’s traditional computers. The technical labor market has no Dauug | 36 experience. But there is a huge upside to offset these tradeoffs: an architecture that by some criteria is the most secure on earth. So for applications where Dauug | 36 is functional enough, fast enough, affordable enough, standardized enough—and there are more such than most engineers realize—nothing beats it for its designed uses.
Most critical infrastructure won’t use use Dauug computers. When Alpha Dauug told a graduate classroom that Dauug | 36 is targeted at the “1% of the 1%,” one student quipped that it would likely be 1% of that. That’s one in a million, although the numerator is immense. No one can predict adoption rates, but we believe there will be machines of important consequence. But not very many by number.
America’s enemies might use Dauug computers. It would be impossible to contain Dauug technology within national boundaries even if we sought to. But realize that the United States of America has more to lose to cyberattacks than any other nation. This means that Dauug computers will improve our security more than lessen it.
We will always be asking for money. If we succeed at making Dauug | 36 a viable hardware platform, people will use it for decades. They will want documentation, support, tools, new features, peripheral options, software, and more. We make all of this technology available free of charge, and we intend to be here for the long haul.
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As official steward for Dauug | 36 and its successors, The Dauug House sponsors necessary ongoing design, prototyping, testing, dissemination, and technical support. The intellectual property needed to produce or reproduce the machines is freely downloadable and freely usable without purpose-of-use restrictions under one or more open-source licenses as a global public benefit. This intellectual property includes but is not restricted to know-how, technical designs, schematics, netlists, firmware, software, toolchains, assemblers, compilers, operating systems, tests, evaluations, papers, talks, slides, interviews, teaching materials, books, and other documentation.
Funds given to The Dauug House support compensation paid to its executive engineer and any hired assistants. Contributions also support materials, tools, supplies, equipment, and outside services needed to design, build, and test prototype machines, as well as article processing fees for open-source conferences and journals, and allowable costs for conference travel, reproduction, publication, and production of video and other media.
The Dauug House
223 Pinegrove Dr.
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United States of America
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Philanthropy is the engine that gets stuff done when nothing is being done. The philanthropic product we give away at The Dauug House is technical expertise. As of 2025, our team has given about 10,000 hours to the development, documentation, and dissemination of a revolutionary class of computers to safeguard freedoms we hold dear. This is our passion as well as our talent.
Today’s financial participation by people like you comes at a tipping point in our history. And it is participation, not the amount of a gift, that steers our ship.