I agree that would be better but COMM is not traded anywhere now so how would you convince a developer team to take COMM as "payment". That's why the next best things to do is burn the coins and reduce the overall supply
It wouldn't be easy, but a big enough CommCoin reward and the prospect of valorization if relaunched might convince someone to take the job. After all 70 million CommCoin at even 50 satoshi would be worth 35 BTC.
But I agree, burning would be the fairest thing to do other than returning it to the rightful owners
I don't know much about tech thing.
If COMM does have something that is technically advanced, maybe it is worth a try for some devs.