To guard against this, Lilly detailed a series of nonnegotiable8 conditions under which he would be willing to discuss his findings. Nothing he said could ever be classified and everything shared would remain experimentally repeatable by him or his colleagues. Long before Linus Torvalds gave away the source code to Linux, or Sasha Shulgin published his chemical cookbook, or Elon Musk shared all of Tesla’s car and battery patents—long before there was even a term for it—Lilly took a stand for open-sourcing ecstasis.
