Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--2d60a0-So we founded the Free Softwar/en

So we founded the Free Software Foundation and it asked for donations, but also took over selling the tapes of GNU Emacs. And it turns out that most of the FSF's income for the first many years came from that, from selling things, from selling copies of software and manuals that everyone was free to copy. Now this is interesting, because this was supposedly impossible; but we did it anyway.