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I could have said, &ldquo;Find a friend who is on the net and who will make a copy for you.&rdquo; Or I could have done what I did with the original PDP-10 Emacs: tell them, &ldquo;Mail me a tape and a SASE, and I will mail it back with Emacs on it.&rdquo; But I had no job, and I was looking for ways to make money from free software. So I announced that I would mail a tape to whoever wanted one, for a fee of $150. In this way, I started a free software distribution business, the precursor of the companies that today distribute entire GNU/Linux system distributions.