On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> One of the all-time great business blunders was Kodak's refusal to > buy Chester Carlson's patents that resulted in Xerox. Kenneth Meese said > "Kodak is a chemical company and this is not a chemical process". This is > right up there with Western Union's turning down Bell's telephone patents. > > And Xerox invented the computer mouse and had no idea what to do with it. Young Steve Jobs saw the invention at a Xerox research lab... he new exactly what to do... This is the stuff MBA candidates write their theses about... Eric Goldstein