Commodore is one long history of management failures... As a big fan at the time, without insight into how dysfunctional it was, it was thoroughly depressing both to see from the outside, and then reading up on the internal chaos years later. It's a miracle they survived as long as they did, and at the same time there were so many fascinating lost opportunities.
ChuckMcM was at Sun at the time, and mentioned a while back he tried to get Sun to buy Commodore outright:
ChuckMcM was at Sun at the time, and mentioned a while back he tried to get Sun to buy Commodore outright:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39585430 (his later replies in that sub-thread are also worth reading)