ZD-Net has a story online today indicating Kodak is seeking chapter 11 bankruptcy. Commenters wonder what it is about Rochester, NY that causes two sets of executives there to fail to effectively exploit the inventions of their engineers, programmers, and scientists.
Xerox is not bankrupt, but years ago, it did fail to utilize their PARC inventions effectively. Steve Jobs saw the potential..
ZDNET with sad KODAK News and Comments
Not what I expected to see today. Rochester, NY friends of ours worked for Koday for years. About 50 years ago, one of my photographs made it into the Kodak photo contest finals. I did not get any real reward other than satisfaction out of it however.
*** Stay tuned for more carnage of the Republican Kinder, Gentler economic Mythology--- Doug Wiken







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