Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--d14f04-But that danger we managed to/en

But that danger we managed to defend against, only to be destroyed by something we had never anticipated, and that was commercialism. Around the early 80's the hackers suddenly found that there was now commercial interest in what they were doing. It was possible to get rich by working at a private company. All that was necessary was to stop sharing their work with the rest of the world and destroy the MIT-AI lab, and this is what they did despite all the efforts I could make to prevent them.