He does not get paid a salary, afaik. The FSF certainly does not pay him. In the old days he made his money by selling copies of Emacs and documentation and s

He does not get paid a salary, afaik. The FSF certainly does not pay him. In the old days he made his money by selling copies of Emacs and documentation and such. These days, he travels the world and speaks at various institutions. Monetization is not at odds with free software, btw. In fact, software that cannot be used commercially is nonfree! There is no moral objection to a programmer being paid to write software. The objection is to software licensing that denies user of that software the "four freedoms". https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html