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xtunes Forced to Change Name, Appearance by Apple Lawyers
A user writes, "xTunes was an Open Source project that replicated much of the interface, functionality, and ease of use of iTunes. Apple's army of lawyers has forced them to change their name and redesign the interface." The new name of the project is sumi.
I can cope with Apple being a bit miffed about someone cloning their interface, but complaining about the name "xtunes" seems a bit rich coming from the company that called used exactly the same symbol (although not name) for their operating system as a popular and well established window system - X.
They also seem to be in a habit of calling their products after popular Unix programs that have been around for years - consider "Xserve" only only one letter short of "Xserver", and "eMac" is only one letter short of "emacs". Maybe their next product will be called "gre", "Linu" or "Mozill".
From someone who remembers when ical was a Tk/Tcl application.
#exclude <ms/windows.h>
They should have held their guns on BHA. In court Carl Sagan would have had to prove by preponderance of the evidence that:
1) He not a butt head
2) That fact was known by Apple at the time
Apple could have had quite a laugh as Sagan tried to establish legal criteria for being a butt head and showing that he did not meet them.