I always thought that this story is probably more nuanced, and indeed it is: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kodak-digital-camera-invention/ https://www.snop

I always thought that this story is probably more nuanced, and indeed it is: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kodak-digital-camera-invention/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kodak-digital-camera-inven... In particular: "While this may have been a motivating factor to some at Kodak, such concerns did not stop Kodak — or even Sasson — from further developing digital cameras and making several technical developments that led to Kodak's first publicly available digital camera in 1991, the Digital Camera System."