[trashcanbred]

Oh I thought this was a project name from Apple Computer. These guys have made people mad before with a project codenamed "Sagan". Carl Sagan sued and they renamed it to project "BHA" for Butt Head Astronomer. So he sued again..

[pollyannaish]

Apple cracks me up. That sound you can use as your alert signal...sosume? As I understand it, the Beatles music company, Apple Records (or whatever it was) allowed the computer company to use the name on the condition they never got into the music business in any way.

Then they developed that alert sound. I guess lawyers were pretty nervous about it...so they named it so sue me.

With the itunes/ipod phenomenon, however, it all seems so silly now.

[Ladysmith]

heh heh! And after he sued about BHA:

Apple claimed the right to free speech under the First Amendment and again won. This prompted Apple to change the name for the 7100 again to "LAW," known internally as meaning "Lawyers Are Wimps."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_litigation_of_Apple_Computer#Libel_dispute_with_Carl_Sagan.