Kodak is at death’s door; Fujifilm, its old rival, is thriving. Why?

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LENIN is said to have sneered that a capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him. The quote may be spurious, but it contains a grain of truth. Capitalists quite often invent the technology that destroys their own business.

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