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I feel like the real story isn't 'Can We Save Commodore?' but 'What IS Commodore anymore?'. If it's just a trademark disconnected from its original tech, you're not reviving a legend, you're just starting a new company with a famous name.
Famous with old people. The new generation has no idea
On the building a Commodore game room for sick kids charity idea: one thing they wouldn't have is nostalgia for the 1980s home computers. Just get them Nintendos.
That said, why can’t there be nostalgic 80s/90s consoles AND same-era computers?
I feel like the real story isn't 'Can We Save Commodore?' but 'What IS Commodore anymore?'. If it's just a trademark disconnected from its original tech, you're not reviving a legend, you're just starting a new company with a famous name.
For a long time it has been misused and nearly disappeared. It is about 40+ trademarks owned by a holding company. It could have been worse if this was scattered among a lot of different entities. So, this is still kind of a big deal as they can acquire all of them
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trademarks can become genericized, which is a bit like them falling into the public domain. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark ) However I don't know if the owner of a trademark can legally make it generic.
> Trademarks can become genericized That’s not the same thing. Trademarks become generalised terms in the public’s mind , not legally. Two people in conversation might refer to a non-Xerox photocopier as a Xerox, but a non-Xerox photocopier company can’t just advertise their products as being Xerox. Additionally, from the wikipedia page you linked (emphasis mine): > A trademark thus popularized is at risk of being ch…
When a trademark becomes "genericized," the trademark is lost and any other company can use it for their own products. The word "escalator" used to be a trademark and now anyone can sell escalators and market them as such.
On the building a Commodore game room for sick kids charity idea: one thing they wouldn't have is nostalgia for the 1980s home computers. Just get them Nintendos.
I didn’t have a NES growing up; my father didn’t allow “game-only” machines in his house. Instead we had a PET > Vic20 > C64 > PC over the years. Being I write code for a living, it seems his plan paid off for me? That said, why can’t there be nostalgic 80s/90s consoles AND same-era computers?
No, I meant, if you want to provide video games, just provide whatever is current and popular. Also, they should research whether there is actually a need for this. One suspects that such a thing already exists.
I feel like the real story isn't 'Can We Save Commodore?' but 'What IS Commodore anymore?'. If it's just a trademark disconnected from its original tech, you're not reviving a legend, you're just starting a new company with a famous name.
Famous with old people. The new generation has no idea