Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--78aaea-Now that meant I had to find s/en

Now that meant I had to find some other way to make a living. As the president of the FSF, I did not want to compete with it; I thought that would be unfair and not correct behavior. So I started making my living by commissions to change the software I had written and teaching classes about it. So people would want some change to be made in Emacs or GCC, and they would think of hiring me, because they figured I was the author so I could do a better job faster. So I started charging as much as $250 an hour and I calculated I could make a living in 7 weeks of paid work per year -- and that meant enough money to spend, an equal amount to save, and an equal amount for taxes. And [when I reached] that point I figured, "I won't take any more paid work this year, I've got other, better things to do."