Symbolics & LMI were founded by MIT people (and a few others) to commercialized the stuff they developed at the MIT AI Lab. The commercialization of the Lisp Ma

Symbolics & LMI were founded by MIT people (and a few others) to commercialized the stuff they developed at the MIT AI Lab. The commercialization of the Lisp Machine technology was a joint decision of the sponsor (DARPA), the university (which licensed the stuff) AND the original developers. Other than Stallman, most people were happy with the decision.