IMO there's a point as long as the terms that the guy's able to negotiate for buying out the current rightsholder make it financially sustainable to keep the business running solely by inexpensively licensing the Commodore brand name to the niche market of aftermarket C64/Amiga projects. I think it would be cool to see stuff like the Mega 65 or the C64 Mini with the actual Commodore brand name on it. I agree that if he has bigger ambitions to "bring back Commodore" then that's a fool's errand, the brand means basically nothing to anyone under the age of 40 and slapping it on modern stuff with little association to Commodore would just further dilute it.
Not sure if you remember MUI, but I was thinking about how extensible the OS was with lib patching.
I mean, how is it that MUI is still superior to every window manager I use, decades later??
There's surely been changes with all the OS updates over the years, but I wonder what a modern amigaos would have been like.
And if MUI was possible, what else could be with backwards compatibility? Imagine a modern AmigaOS. It could be neat.
But I agree, that battle is lost. And sadly I bet if it wasn't, Commodore execs could have turned it into an online nightnare like Windows is these days.
