Eastman, as the article says, gave us great memories, from Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima to simple family albums. I have albums going back to my grandfather, thanks to Eastman.
Good for Eastman and the memories they silver-plated onto photo paper.
And if you’re planning to come back at me with some tirade, I will ignore you.
The truth hurts. There have been many threads on Free Republic about the onerous political correctness at Kodak. Don't believe me? Just follow the link I embeded. In the last couple of decades quite a number of long time employees were fired because of things they said on their own time or not wanting to attend corporate reeducation seminars about politically correct causes (ie. leftist causes and "diversity").
Here's a quote from another Freeper today on another thread about Kodak.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2787160/posts?page=26#26The film and paper products I liked to use are no longer manufactured by Kodak. Companies can't trade on their past reputation forever. Kodak may have given us memories of the past, but they won't be giving us our future memories largely due to their inept management over the last couple of decades that wanted to ignore the effects of digital imaging technologies on its existing product line and actually sold off divisions created by previous management to diversify its products. They drove off talented employees who refused to go along with leftist cultural indoctrination and "diversity" pushed by the HR department. Kodak's demise is sad but self-inflicted.I worked there as a software engineer
The woman in charge was an idiot so I told them I was leaving and gave two weeks notice
The idiot woman told me I couldn’t leave. I insisted for the two weeks that I was going. She honestly thought as the boss she could ORDER me to stay. She came from a government agency (20 and out!)
When I didnt show up the next Monday after my two weeks notice I got about 20 phone calls asking where I was, including several telling me I had to come to a meeting they would organize to explain myself.
I told them I didnt work there any more and I was not planning on coming to their meeting. They CALLED me from the meeting...
Then when they found out this idiot woman didnt know anything about writing software and needed to call me back to finish it about a years later, I found out I was on their ‘black list’ because I left and they could not hire me back. (Remember- THEY called ME to come back, because I was the only one who was able to make it work)
Libtards, all of them
Back in 1991 Kodak teamed up with Nikon and made the Digital Camera System 100 for the F3. They made the first digital camera in 1975. Kodak is still the 3rd largest manufacturer. They hold patents that 85% of there competitors use. They did not fail because they ignored digital. MDB Capital Group estimates the digital-imaging patents owned by Kodak may now be worth $3 billion in a sale. Something is missing in this story.
Self-inflicted, indeed. But not for the reasons you gave. I retired from Kodak.