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But I had no job, and I was looking for some way to make some money through my work on free software. So I announced, "send me $150 and I'll mail you a tape of GNU Emacs." And the orders began dribbling in. By the middle of the year, they were trickling in, eight to ten orders a month, which, if necessary, I could have lived on.