True, but it was never Xerox's thinking and they didn't do it out of altruism. The government was breathing down their necks re: antitrust in the late 60's (i.

True, but it was never Xerox's thinking and they didn't do it out of altruism. The government was breathing down their necks re: antitrust in the late 60's (i.e. the peak profit years) and taking on some of the ARPA projects at PARC helped buy Xerox some time on that front. They also only had a 5 year commitment to the projects and based on a couple of oral histories I've heard, it sounds like they started dismantling things as soon as they could.