Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--01e91f-It was only in the late sevent/en

It was only in the late seventies that this began to change. I was extremely impressed by the sharing spirit that we had. We were doing something that we hoped was useful and were happy if people could use it. So when I developed the first EMACS, and people wanted to start use it outside of MIT, I said that it belongs to the EMACS &ldquo;Commune&rdquo;, that in order to use EMACS you had to be a member of the commune, and that meant that you had the responsibility to contribute all the improvements that you made. All the improvements to the original EMACS had to be sent back to me so that I could incorporate them into newer versions of EMACS, so that everyone in the community could benefit from them.