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RMS originally made money for FSF by selling copies of Emacs and other programs on tape. That was back when the first person to buy on physical media couldn't j

RMS originally made money for FSF by selling copies of Emacs and other programs on tape. That was back when the first person to buy on physical media couldn't just slap on the Internet.

neilv 7y ago
That's before my time, and I think some of the stuff I heard about was from when most people were getting GNU software via FTP, and later. (Though FSF sold paper books.)
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Walnut Creek CDs were quite common. I did buy a bunch of them on regular basis.