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I want to say that novel Hammond is too passive to be a villain. He's more greedy and negligent than he is actively evil. But the novel does have that one passing mention that he blackmailed Nedry into continuing to work for him after deliberately underselling the workload he would be responsible for.

If you take that out of the equation, Nedry would have left the company rather than shutting off the power and leaving everyone to die.