AT&T -> C. Xerox -> Smalltalk... You arranged a bunch of companies and programming languages which were designed by those companies (or with their support) and

AT&T -> C. Xerox -> Smalltalk... You arranged a bunch of companies and programming languages which were designed by those companies (or with their support) and said that the motivation for designing those languages was "control". The fact the some of these examples were indeed (at least partially) motivated by "control" doesn't prove that all other examples fall into the same category. Mozilla wants Rust to have control over their programming language? Step 1. Invent programming language. Step 2. Control it. Step 3. Profit!