One of the things that led to trouble between DP and Phil was that Barry was taking money out of DP because he was working full time on TBL for awhile, while the others had jobs.
I do not remember how much it was and to be frank, I do not see a problem with this. I bet he was working like hell to get the prototype ready, and everybody needs to eat, right?
PS! This was before ARA, and probably just a one time amount. But I remember that Phil said that there was not enough money to start eating the cake and there was a big argument about it.