Hypothetical. C= doesn't get the Amiga. Then what.

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There really isn't much left to Amiga, the IP has expired, the OS is permanently licensed to Hyperion.  The only thing AI or the Kouri estate have is the Amiga name for use in electronic devices.  That's nothing Apple or any large electronics firm would be interested in.  The company who's name shall not be mentioned doesn't need the Amiga name actually, but as they've already made deal with AI, there's really nothing stopping them from using it.

[persia]

Yep, I read the title and thought it was the evil one, sorry.

Title does use the word "doesn't", which indicates something current. "Didn't" would be more appropriate to talk about something that did or might not have happened a few decades ago. As would some mention that you're not tallking about Today Commodore or their current claimed desire to have Amiga and current use of Amiga name, and the assumption that there is a fight about that. I don't consider myself obsessed with today Commodore USA, I don't even think of them other than when I see posts about Commodore. But I did assume that's what this was about. The mention of Atari, etc.  confused me until I saw the later clarification post.

[persia]

I'm going to say it, the nasty four lettered vulgarities with a "U" as the second letter, I swear, I will.  


Hear goes....



CUSA

There I did it.

They don't have the name "Amiga", they have "AmigaOS" and "AmigaOne". Your obviously too well mannered to use nasty four lettered vulgarities with a "U" as the second letter..... I understand, it does leave a bad taste in the mouth.

[persia]

I note that neither Commodore nor Atari survived the 90's.  There was a storm coming that nobody anticipated.  Apple survived by the skin of it's teeth.  There is nothing anyone without 20/20 hindsight could have done to survive.  The clone wars would even almost claim IBM, which was forced to reinvent itself as a non-pc company.

Actually without the Amiga, Commodore would have no computer to compete with the PC and would likely have thrown most of it's resources into PC clones, something it didn't do until later.  It might have survived as a clone maker had it done this.