The Amiga Communities – combined – consist of hundreds of fans of a machine that hasn’t existed as a continually renewing, evolving system for a long, long time. During that interim, all of us have developed our own ideas of what it could have been, and should have been, along with some pretty stubborn ideas of where it would go IF the brand were ever revived.
It's not just the brand that needs to be revived. There are currently a few crooks based in the states that are trying just that, slapping Commodore and Amiga stickers on PC's, claiming the classic machines are "back".
If they tried to revive it ‘as’ the Amiga, they would run into an awful lot of contradicting and conflicting ideas, and, inevitably, some hostility, as different parties began to see that maybe the new venture was not going to go ‘their’ way. This would be a tricky situation, further complicated by the fact that the new owners would like to have US as their first and core customers, while at the same time trying not to alienate us.
Well, if you want to revive something as the Amiga, you have to preserve some of the original feeling. You can't put a T-Ford badge on a 2010 Toyota Camry and say the classic veteran is back. Because it's not: it's new, and it's something
completely different.
Taking all that into account, probably the best way to go would be (as I have said in previous posts) to avoid the name and the brand altogether, and do an entire new machine that is ‘secretly’ inspired by, and based on the Amiga, and simply avoid a lot of trouble by not calling it that.
Yes. This.
If C=USA did that (and avoided the "Commodore" in their company name as well) I wouldn't even care what they did. Who knows, maybe I would be a bit more supportive then, too.
So you are absolutely correct: Avoid the name, don't market it as something it's not, and no nerves will be struck.
